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Definition of Medicago lupulina
1. Noun. Prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America.
Generic synonyms: Medic, Medick, Trefoil
Lexicographical Neighbors of Medicago Lupulina
Literary usage of Medicago lupulina
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Medicago lupulina L. Black or Hop Medic. ... Medicago lupulina L. Sp. Pl. 779.
1753. Annual, pubescent, branched at the base, the branches decumbent and ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"A name usually applied in modern books to Trifolium procumbens, L.; but in Lisle's
Observations on Husbandry (1757), pp. 281-292, Medicago lupulina, L., ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"281-292, Medicago lupulina, L., seems intended. See Clover, Hop. ... L. (2)
Medicago lupulina, L., is the species sold by seedsmen under this name. Hopes. ..."
4. Laws, Joint Resolutions, and Memorials, Passed at the ... Session of the by Nebraska, Legislature (1915)
"... contains five per cent, or more by weight of yellow trefoil (Medicago lupulina)
or small annual yellow sweet clover (Melilotus indica) seed or burr ..."
5. Agricultural Botany, Theoretical and Practical by John Percival (1913)
"The most commonly occurring impurity, and one which is to be specially looked
for, is Trefoil (Medicago lupulina L.), the seeds of which in colour and size ..."
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