stinking bean trefoil
- noun
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trebol apestoso
- When crushed, the leaves of stinking bean trefoil emit a strong, foul scent.
Examples
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Gardeners often avoid planting stinking bean trefoil because of the unpleasant smell released by its leaves.
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The stinking bean trefoil is native to marshy areas and can be identified by its distinctive odor.
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The stinking bean trefoil grows abundantly in the wild.
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Many gardeners dislike the stinking bean trefoil for its odor.
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Gardeners often avoid planting stinking bean trefoil because of the unpleasant smell released by its leaves.
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When crushed, the leaves of stinking bean trefoil emit a strong, foul scent.
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The stinking bean trefoil is native to marshy areas and can be identified by its distinctive odor.
Synonyms
A shrub with leaves in three parts, yellow flowers, and curving seed pods that smells bad when crushed
A Mediterranean shrub with three-part leaves and yellow flowers that smells very bad when crushed
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a literal descriptive compound: 'stinking' (smelly) modifies 'bean trefoil' (a trefoil/legume-like plant), so the meaning — a trefoil plant with bean-like pods that emits a foul smell — is directly derivable from the constituents. The adjectival + noun + noun composition is a standard, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows the component words would understand it.
Etymology
Stinking bean trefoil comes from what the plant looks and smells like: trefoil means it has three small leaves and bean refers to its curved seed pods. The word stinking comes from the strong bad smell the leaves give when crushed, so the name tells you the shrub's shape and that it smells unpleasant.
