noun. Any of various herbs of the genus Trifolium in the pea family, having trifoliolate leaves and dense heads of small flowers and including species grown for forage, for erosion control, and as a source of nectar for honeybees.

noun. Any of several other plants in the pea family, such as bush clover and sweet clover.

noun. Any of several nonleguminous plants, such as water clover.

idiom. (in clover) Living a carefree life of ease, comfort, or prosperity.

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noun. In Texas, Marsilea macropoda, a plant of some forage value in shady bottoms. See Marsilea.

noun. Same as annual red clover.

noun. In California: Trifolium fucatum, a true clover, probably with some allied species or varieties. These are succulent plants with light-colored foliage.

noun. T. obtusiflorum, a species having an acid taste and clammy with an acid exudation. The Indians regard it as one of the best for eating, the exudation being generally washed off. Also called salt clover and, as growing near springs, spring-clover.

noun. Same as bear-clover.

noun. A name of various common species of plants of the genus Trifolium, natural order Leguminosæ.

noun. One of several plants of other genera belonging to the same order.

noun. A plant of different species of the genus Trifolium; as the common red clover, Trifolium pratense, the white, Trifolium repens, and the hare's foot, Trifolium arvense.

noun. a small weevil (Apion apricans), that destroys the seeds of clover.

noun. the larva of a small moth (Asopia costalis), often very destructive to clover hay.

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noun. See Meliot.

noun. A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.

noun. a plant of the genus Trifolium

"I am not familiar with Virginia soils but I can tell you in the midwest clover is a Deer dream plot."