Definitions
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- noun hairy Eurasian plant with small yellow flowers and an astringent root formerly used medicinally
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Examples
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The boll weevil and clover-leaf weevil are eaten by the upland plover and killdeer, the rice weevil by the killdeer, the cowpea weevil by the upland plover, and the clover-root curculio by the following species of shorebirds:
Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation William Temple Hornaday 1895
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