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Definition of Calvary clover
1. Noun. An annual of the Mediterranean area having spiny seed pods and leaves with dark spots.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calvary Clover
Literary usage of Calvary clover
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"calvary clover" is the common name of a pretty variety of the white Dutch Clover,
in which the leaves are almost entirely of a deep bronze- purple colour ..."
2. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"calvary clover" is the common name of a pretty variety of the white Dutch Clover,
in which the leaves are almost entirely of a deep bronze- purple colour ..."
3. Pot-pourri from a Surrey Garden by Maria Theresa Earle (1897)
"In the old convent gardens calvary clover was supposed not to grow unless sown
on Good Friday. It is a curious little annual, with a blood-red spot on each ..."
4. Gardens of England by Ernest Thomas Cook (1908)
"The stem of the viper's bugloss is speckled like a snake, so it is a remedy
against poison or the sting of a scorpion. Heart-trefoil, or calvary clover, ..."
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