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alfalfa
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun alfalfa has 2 senses
- alfalfa(n = noun.plant) lucerne, medicago sativa - important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop; Array has parts: alfalfa
- alfalfa(n = noun.food) Array - leguminous plant grown for hay or forage; Array is a kind of fodder
is a kind of medic, medick, trefoil
is a part of alfalfa, lucerne, medicago sativa
CIDE DICTIONARY
alfalfa, n. [Sp.].
The lucern (Medicago sativa ), a leguminous plant having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, and cultivated for fodder; -- so called in California, Texas, etc. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
alfalfa, n. a leguminous plant, Medicago sativa, with clover-like leaves and flowers used for fodder. Also called LUCERNE.
Etymology
Sp. f. Arab. al-fasfasa, a green fodder
ROGET THESAURUS
alfalfa
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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