clivers
- noun
- /ˈklaɪvərz/
- UK
:
ganchos
- Gardeners often remove clivers because they spread rapidly and can choke other plants.
Examples
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The hedgerow was thick with clivers, their stems clinging to my clothes as I walked past.
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I found some clivers near the riverbank.
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Children sometimes play by sticking clivers to their sleeves, amused by the plant's tiny hooks.
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The clivers grew abundantly in the garden.
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Children sometimes play by sticking clivers to their sleeves, amused by the plant's tiny hooks.
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Gardeners often remove clivers because they spread rapidly and can choke other plants.
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The hedgerow was thick with clivers, their stems clinging to my clothes as I walked past.
Synonyms
A plant with sticky stems and tiny hooked hairs that cling to clothing and animals
A small climbing plant with thin stems covered in tiny hooked hairs that stick to clothes and fur
An annual plant with sticky, prickly stems that cling to clothes
A plant with many hooked hairs on its stems that cling to clothes and animals
A small plant with curved prickly stems that stick to clothes and animal fur
Surface Forms
Morphology
clivers = cliver (transparent) = cliver + s
The form is the regular plural of the singular plant name 'cliver', so the meaning is directly derived by number.
Etymology
Clivers, also called cleavers, comes from an old word cleave meaning 'to cling' or 'to stick'. So, the name fits the plant: its tiny hooked stems really 'stick' to clothes and other plants.
