Other forms: clovers
Clover is a low meadow plant with three round leaflets. A field of clover, clover honey, a four-leaf clover.
It feeds nitrogen into the soil through bacteria in its roots, which is why it was the making of crop rotation and why lawn purists who kill it are working against themselves. A four-leaf one is a rare mutation. In clover means comfortably off.
1nouncloverA low meadow plant with three round leaflets.
“The cows were grazing on a field of sweet white clover.”
clover is a plant.
Old English claefre names the plant, from a Germanic root. The German Klee is the same word.
Proto-West Germanic
*klaibrā
Old English
clāfre
Middle English
clovere
English, today
clover
From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic klaibrā. Cognate with stq Kleeuwer, Low German Klaver, Klever, Dutch klaver, all “clover”. More distantly also related with German Klee.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA