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Definition of Melilotus
1. Noun. Erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement.
Group relationships: Genus Melilotus
Specialized synonyms: Melilotus Alba, White Melilot, White Sweet Clover, Melilotus Officinalis, Yellow Sweet Clover
Generic synonyms: Ligneous Plant, Woody Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Melilotus
Literary usage of Melilotus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"melilotus macrostachys is ^ promising by reason of its being less bitter than most
... Brit- ton states that there are about twenty species of melilotus, ..."
2. The Forage and Fiber Crops in America by Thomas Forsyth Hunt (1907)
"WHITE AND YELLOW melilotus (melilotus alba L. and M. officinalis L.), usually
known as sweet clovers because of their characteristic odor, are distinguished ..."
3. The Encyclopedia of Pure Materia Medica: A Record of the Positive Effects of by Timothy Field Allen (1879)
"285), effects of a drachm dissolved in half a pint of water, and drank before
breakfast. One or more liquid stools (after one hour or so). melilotus. ..."
4. Select Extra-tropical Plants Readily Eligible for Industrial Culture Or by Ferdinand von Mueller (1880)
"melilotus officinalis, Desrousseaux. Europe and Middle Asiat Also biennial, or
lasting through several years if prevented from flowering. ..."
5. Report of the Secretary of Agriculture by United States Dept. of Agriculture (1894)
"melilotus thrives on calcareous soils, making some growth even on the bare rotten
... melilotus may be sown with oats in February, or the seed may be ..."
6. A Text-book of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Characteristic, Analytical by Allen Corson Cowperthwaite (1909)
"... worse from change of weather. Periostitis, Has been used in psoriasis and
other skin diseases. melilotus. Synonym.—melilotus Officinalis. Natural order. ..."
7. Soil Alkali: Its Origin, Nature, and Treatment by Franklin Stewart Harris (1920)
"... feeding habits in many cases, the feeding roots not being in the alkali zone
but being in the purer solutions below. Sweet clover (melilotus alba and M. ..."
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