cloverleaf
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- noun
- /ˈkloʊvərˌliːf/
- Specialized
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intercambio en trébol
- Twenty years of oil revenue had brought long divided highways plunging through the once-open spaces, with rotaries, overpasses, and cloverleaf intersections.
- cloverleaf highway
- cloverleaf interchange
Examples
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Texas Cloverleaf is in.
Blog text (1) -
Barrel racing is a non-contact, timed event involving a human racing around a cloverleaf pattern of barrels while on horseback.
Academic text (1996) -
Well, I figure we're gonna need a couple of blocks on the other side - for a cloverleaf.
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"Here's the cloverleaf coming up," he said.
Fiction book (1999) -
I knew the way, but it would take me several miles down Quakerbridge Road and across Route 1 (back before there was a cloverleaf).
Blog text (28) -
It doesn't do this on any other cloverleaf, so I think it's just messing with me.
Blog text (14) -
The Soviet Union paid for a massive stadium and sports complex for the Asian Games; Japan helped build the Hotel Indonesia; and the United States sent money for highway improvements, including a giant, modern cloverleaf interchange.
Academic text (1993) -
The 1960s design of the Ringgold Road cloverleaf and access to the Tennessee Welcome Center also throws speeding and slowing vehicles into the same lanes, resulting in frequent crashes.
Blog text (33) -
The cloverleaf design of the interchange allows vehicles to change directions smoothly without stopping at traffic lights.
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While driving, we approached a busy cloverleaf that connected several major highways.
Synonyms
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A road junction with ramps that lets cars change highways without crossing traffic
How Complex
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Cloverleaf for a road interchange is named after the plant because the ramps make a pattern like a 'four-leaf clover'. That's why a cloverleaf interchange lets cars change direction smoothly without crossing oncoming traffic.