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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CLOVER,
CLOVER-GRASS, n. A genus of plants, called Trifolium, trefoil, or three-leafed, Fr. trefle. The species are numerous. The red clover is generally cultivated for fodder and for enriching land. The white clover is also excellent food for cattle, either green or dry, and from its flowers the bee collects no small portion of its stores of honey.
To live in clover, is to live luxuriously, or in abundance; a phrase borrowed from the luxuriant growth of clover, and the feeding of cattle in clover.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a plant of the genus Trifolium [syn: clover, trefoil]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English cl?fre; akin to Old High German kl?o clover Date: before 12th century 1. any of a genus (Trifolium) of low leguminous herbs having trifoliolate leaves and flowers in dense heads and including many that are valuable for forage and attractive to bees 2. any of various related plants (as of the genera Melilotus, Lespedeza, or Medicago) of the legume family

Britannica Concise

Any legume of the genus Trifolium, composed of 300 or more annual and perennial species, found in most temperate and subtropical regions. The alternate, compound leaves usually have three toothed leaflets. The very small, fragrant flowers are crowded into dense heads. Clovers are highly palatable to livestock and high in protein, phosphorus, and calcium, thus providing valuable nourishment in the form of hay, pasture, and silage. They also improve and conserve soil by adding nitrogen and increasing the availability of other nutrients for crops that follow. The most important agricultural species are red clover (T. pratense), white clover (T. repens), and alsike clover (T. hybridum).

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any leguminous fodder plant of the genus Trifolium, having dense flower heads and leaves each consisting of usu. three leaflets. Phrases and idioms: clover leaf a junction of roads intersecting at different levels with connecting sections forming the pattern of a four-leaved clover. in clover in ease and luxury. Etymology: OE clafre f. Gmc

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Clover Clo"ver (kl[=o]"v[~e]r), n. [OE. claver, clover, AS. cl[=ae]fre; akin to LG. & Dan. klever, D. klaver, G. klee, Sw. kl["o]fver.] (Bot.) A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, T. pratense, the white, T. repens, and the hare's foot, T. arvense. Clover weevil (Zo["o]l.) a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover. Clover worm (Zo["o]l.), the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clover hay. In clover, in very pleasant circumstances; fortunate. [Colloq.] Sweet clover. See Meliot.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(clovers) Clover is a small plant with pink or white ball-shaped flowers. ...a four leaf clover. N-VAR

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

To be, or live, in clover; to live luxuriously. Clover is the most desirable food for cattle.

Moby Thesaurus

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