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Definition of Sweet clover

1. Noun. Erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Clover

Literary usage of Sweet clover

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"The next year I had this in wheat, This is a view of a 5-acre strip of sweet clover across one end of the 60-acre field shown in the first picture. ..."

2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1908)
"Question—Is there any danger of getting the sweet clover by using ... sweet clover is a two-year plant, or a biennial, and ordinarily we mow alfalfa three ..."

3. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"sweet clover will thrive on barren, gravelly and sandy soils, and when grown ... As sweet clover is a plant that grows under hard conditions it may be given ..."

4. Folio (1885)
"In tlie days of my youth I remember An old mower sang me this rune: " The aftermath of the September Is not the sweet clover of ..."

5. The United States: A Graphic History by Louis Morton Hacker, Rudolf Modley, George Rogers Taylor (1891)
"the burr clover (Medicago denti- culata), the sweet clover (Melilotus Indica), the sand lupin ... sweet clover ..."

6. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The sweet clovers are represented in Minnesota by two varieties, the white sweet clover and the yellow. These are bushy, branching herbs sometimes eight or ..."

7. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"The next year I had this in wheat, This is a view of a 5-acre strip of sweet clover across one end of the 60-acre field shown in the first picture. ..."

8. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1908)
"Question—Is there any danger of getting the sweet clover by using ... sweet clover is a two-year plant, or a biennial, and ordinarily we mow alfalfa three ..."

9. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"sweet clover will thrive on barren, gravelly and sandy soils, and when grown ... As sweet clover is a plant that grows under hard conditions it may be given ..."

10. Folio (1885)
"In tlie days of my youth I remember An old mower sang me this rune: " The aftermath of the September Is not the sweet clover of ..."

11. The United States: A Graphic History by Louis Morton Hacker, Rudolf Modley, George Rogers Taylor (1891)
"the burr clover (Medicago denti- culata), the sweet clover (Melilotus Indica), the sand lupin ... sweet clover ..."

12. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The sweet clovers are represented in Minnesota by two varieties, the white sweet clover and the yellow. These are bushy, branching herbs sometimes eight or ..."

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