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Definition of Dutch clover
1. Noun. Creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage.
Definition of Dutch clover
1. Noun. Common English name for ''Trifolium repens'', an important fodder plant also called white clover. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dutch Clover
Literary usage of Dutch clover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Flashlights on Nature by Grant Allen (1905)
"dutch clover, BEFORE MARRIAGE. if I lie," as Macaulay's Roman poet bluntly puts it.
dutch clover is a rather smooth specimen of its type, not nearly so ..."
2. The Bee-keepers' Guide: Or Manual of the Apiary by Albert John Cook (1882)
"With June comes the incomparable white or dutch clover, Trifolium repens (Fig.
... White or Dutch. Clover. are hidden in its corolla tube. ..."
3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1859)
"Numerous paragraphs about lawns in your journal, invariably recommend " Dutch
clover ;" this may be very good if you are sure of getting the true seed. ..."
4. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1860)
"... f the weight was made up of weeds «cd do. of dutch clover . ... 18 — 156000
White dutch clover ..................... 26600 x 1Î ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"Common dutch clover does this in a simple yet very noticeable fashion. ...
Every head of dutch clover thus habitually consists of two parts—an upper part, ..."
6. Lectures to Farmers on Agricultural Chemistry by Alexander Petzholdt (1846)
"dutch clover is sown either on the autumnal sowing or among the spring corn-,
... The time for which dutch clover lasts depends upon the extent to which the ..."
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