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Definition of Alpine clover
1. Noun. European mountain clover with fragrant usually pink flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpine Clover
Literary usage of Alpine clover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science from an Easy Chair: A Second Series by Edwin Ray Lankester (1913)
"... the nearly black and the purple orchids, vetches of all colours, the Alpine
clover with four or five enormous flowers in a head instead of fifty little ..."
2. Alpine Flowers for English Gardens by William Robinson (1870)
"The flowers, like those of the alpine Clover, are sometimes dull in colour.
It is a valuable plant for the fronts of borders or the rougher portions of ..."
3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1917)
"... "starry" for "purple," these lines describe accurately and equally well the
cushion pink, the two-flowered sand wort, the paronychia, the alpine clover, ..."
4. Alpines and Bog-plants by Reginald John Farrer (1908)
"As you go higher and higher, over the fine turf of alpine clover and Azalea
procumbens, you come at last upon Senecio Doronicum. ..."
5. The Upper Engadine by Spencer C. Musson (1907)
"Amid meadow grass, rampion, and ox-eyed daisies, he can gather alpine clover,
mountain asters, arnica, androsace obtusifolia, gentiana nivalis, ..."
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