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Definition of Clivers
1. Noun. Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia.
Generic synonyms: Bedstraw
Definition of Clivers
1. n. See Cleavers.
Definition of Clivers
1. Noun. ''Galium aparine'', the plant called cleavers. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clivers
1. an annual herb [n CLIVERS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clivers
| clits clitter clittered clitters clitties clival cliver clivers (current term) clivia clivias | clivis clivities clivity clivus clivus ocularis clm cloacae cloacal cloacal membrane |
Literary usage of Clivers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by Robert Dodsley, William Carew Hazlitt (1874)
"A new interlude and a merry of the nature of the Four Elements, declaring many
proper points of philosophy natural, and of clivers strange lands, ..."
2. The Family Receipt Book: Containing Eight Hundred Valuable Receipts in by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1819)
"... of clivers, or Goose Grass. Young geese are very fond of the branches oi has
been found that the leaves of the vine, dried in the shade, ..."
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