clover
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zigzag clover (Trifolium medium)
English
Etymology
From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic *klaibrā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer (“clover”), West Frisian klaver (“clover”), Dutch klaver (“clover”), German Low German Klaver (“clover”), German Klee (“clover”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkləʊ.və(ɹ)/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkloʊ.vɚ/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkləʉ.və(ɹ)/
- Rhymes: -əʊvə(ɹ)
Noun
clover (plural clovers)
- A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
- 1636, G S, “ Psalme LXV.”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: ], →OCLC, page 101:
- He Raine upon her boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures: / / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.
- (cartomancy) The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.
Alternative forms
- claver (obsolete)
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- Bokhara clover
- brown clover (Trifolium badium)
- bush clover (Lespedeza spp.)
- Caucasian clover
- clover clamp
- Cloverdale
- clovered
- clover grass
- cloverleaf
- cloverlike
- clover louse
- clover weevil (Apion apricans etc.)
- clover worm (Asopia costalis)
- clovery
- Cooper clover
- crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum)
- Dutch clover (Trifolium repens)
- Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum)
- four-leaf clover, four-leafed clover, four-leaved clover
- hart's clover (Melilotus)
- heart clover (Medicago arabica)
- in clover
- jackass clover
- Japan clover
- Japanese clover
- kura clover
- lemon clover (Oxalis stricta)
- like a bee in clover
- like a pig in clover
- like pigs in clover
- lucky clover
- Menindee clover
- mountain carpet clover (Trifolium monanthum)
- owl's clover
- prairie clover (Dalea spp.)
- rare as a four-leaf clover
- red clover (Trifolium pratense)
- rolling in clover
- round-headed bush clover (Lespedeza capitata)
- snail clover (Medicago scutellata etc.)
- Spanish clover
- strawberry clover
- sub clover
- subterranean clover
- suckling clover
- sweet clover, sweet-clover (Melilotus spp.)
- white clover (Trifolium repens)
Descendants
- → Catalan: clóver
Translations
plant in genus Trifolium
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References
clover on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
Trifolium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies 
Category:Trifolium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
