red clover
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- noun
- /rɛd ˈkloʊvər/
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trébol rojo
- In our garden, red clover helps improve soil health and provides a beautiful splash of color.
- red clover isoflavones
- red clover extract
- flowers of red clover
Examples
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Red clover
Blog text (22) -
The field was covered with blooming red clover, attracting many bees and butterflies.
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State flower is the red clover.
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"Red clover, green clover, a buttercup bouquet.
Fiction book (1997) -
Flies buzzed about the flock grazing the red clover.
Fiction book (2000) -
I breathed the fragrance of red clover, Johnson grass, and ripe figs.
Fiction book (1990) -
Behind it, there's an old orchard where we still raise a few apples mixed in with the red clover, alfalfa, and fescue for the horses.
Fiction book (1998) -
Black cohosh, agnus castus, red clover, and soya are some of the non-hormonal options that women may ask about.
Academic text (2015) -
Farmers often grow red clover alongside grasses to provide nutritious forage for livestock.
Synonyms
A clover plant with red-pink flowers grown for animal feed and to improve soil
A plant with purple to pink flowers that farmers grow for animal food and to make soil better
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun is a straightforward adjective + noun combination: 'red' simply describes the color of the 'clover', so the meaning (a type of clover that is red/pinkish) is directly derivable from the constituents. This compositional pattern is common across languages and follows basic English modifier-noun structure, so a B1 learner who knows both words will readily understand it.
Etymology
Red clover is a simple, literal name for the clover plant with dark red-purple flowers. Farmers grow red clover as 'animal food' and to make the soil richer, so the name helps you know which clover they mean.