Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Texas the term is used indiscriminately of species of Astragalus and Lupinus forming natural pasturage. In the latter sense buffalo-clover has also been used.

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Examples

  • She had experimented even with the rank buffalo-pea, and she could not see a fine bronze cluster of them without shaking her head and murmuring, "What a pity!"

    O Pioneers! Willa Sibert Cather 1910

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