Cloverleaf

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  • noun. A highway interchange at which two highways, one crossing over the other, have a series of entrance and exit ramps resembling the outline of a four-leaf clover and enabling vehicles to proceed in either direction on either highway.
  • adjective. Resembling or shaped like a leaf of the clover plant.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The leaf of clover; a trefoil.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. a highway interchange between two roads in which the connecting road pattern resembles a four-leaf clover, and which allows moving from one road to another without left-hand turns. One road passes over the other, and the exit from one highway and entrance into the second highway proceeds from the right-hand lane in all directions.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.
  • noun. The leaf of a clover plant
  • noun. (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) A cloverleaf interchange.
  • verb. To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. an interchange that does not require left-hand turns
  • Word Usage
    "No, I’m suggesting just the opposite: that we can’t keep building new roads and assuming that we’ve gotten the expensive stuff done once that new cloverleaf is finished."
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