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Definition of Medicago falcata

1. Noun. European medic naturalized in North America having yellow flowers and sickle-shaped pods.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Medicago Falcata

Literary usage of Medicago falcata

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

1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1800)
"[ I016 ] MEDICAGO falcata. Yellow Medick. the keel of the corolla from the ... MEDICAGO falcata ..."

2. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"If flowers of Medicago falcata are crossed with pollen belonging to another ... If, however, pollen is brought to them from Medicago falcata the degree of ..."

3. Alfalfa Farming in America by Joseph Elwyn Wing (1909)
"Yellow lucerne or Swedish clover (Medicago falcata) is a perennial plant strongly resembling alfalfa, but it differs from alfalfa in being of somewhat lower ..."

4. An Introduction to Botany by John ( Lindley (1839)
"Falcate (falcatus); plane and curved, with parallel edges, like the blade of a reaper's sickle; as the pod of Medicago falcata: any degree of curvature, ..."

5. An introduction to botany by John Lindley (1835)
"... like the blade of a reaper's sickle; as the pod of Medicago falcata: any degree of curvature, with parallel edges, receives this name. 39. ..."

6. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1895)
"At Penzance the plant was probably introduced with ballast, as I found Medicago falcata, M. sativa, and Hyoscyamus niger in the vicinity. ..."

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