clover

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This clover is a great favorite with bees.

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  1. noun Any of various herbs of the genus Trifolium in the pea family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense heads of small flowers and including species grown for forage, for erosion control, and as a source of nectar for honeybees.
  2. noun Any of several other plants in the pea family, such as bush clover and sweet clover.
  3. noun Any of several nonleguminous plants, such as owl's clover and water clover.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English clāfre.

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  1. English dial. claver, clavver, Scots claver, claiver; from Middle English clover, earlier claver, from Anglo-Saxon clāfre, usually clæfre = Dutch klaver = Middle Low German klēver, klaveren, Low German klēver, klēwer = Danish klöver = Swedish klöfver = (in shorter form) Old High German chlēo, chlē (chlēw-), Middle High German klē (klēw-), German klee, clover. Root unknown.
 

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/ˈkloʊvər/
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