Lexic.us

Definition of Hop clover

1. Noun. Prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America.

2. Noun. Clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hop Clover

hooven hoover up hoovered hoovering hoovers hooves hooving hoowee hooyah hop

hop, skip, and a jump hop-picker hop-skip hop-step-and-jump hop a freight hop clover (current term) hop field hop freight hop garden hop gardens

hop hornbeam hop hornbeams hop it hop joint hop marjoram hop n pop hop off hop on hop out hop pole

Literary usage of Hop clover

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Observations in Husbandry by Edward Lisle (1757)
"Cold clays are not fit however for hop-clover, and it appears to me, that the beft barley ground is the beft hop- clover ground. ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Yellow clover or hop clover (T. agrar- iion) is a hairless or slightly hairy annual ... T. dubium is the least hop clover or hop-trefoil, also called yellow ..."

3. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language ...: To which is by John Jamieson (1880)
"The head of a hop«, or of a deep and pretty wide glen among hills, which meet and sweep round the upper end, South of S. HOP-CLOVER,«. ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"At my request one of the workmen on the line gathered a handful for my inspection, and told me it was "Wild Clover," the kind called "hop clover. ..."

5. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Europe, nat in US Yellow Clover, hop clover, Hop Trefoil*. More common in US is the smaller (b) T. ... also from Europe, Low or Smaller Hop-clover. c. ..."

6. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"Introduced and Foreign Species Golden clover; yellow hop-clover, T. agrarium L. Low hop clover: lesser trefoil: yellow clover, T. procumbens L. Least hop ..."

7. General View of the Agriculture of Wiltshire: Drawn Up and Published by by Thomas Davis (1811)
"Dutch clover, perennial white clover,—Hop and ray, hop clover and ray-grass, ... Milled hop, hop clover-seed cleaned from the husk. VEGETATING PROCESS. ..."

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