bird's foot clover

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   European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America

   Synonymsbird's foot trefoilbabies' slippersbacon and eggsLotus corniculatus

   Broadersubshrub

   Part ofLotus

Questions about bird's foot clover

What does bird's foot clover mean?

bird's foot clover means "European forage plant having claw-shaped pods introduced in America".

What is another word for bird's foot clover?

Close synonyms include bird's foot trefoil, babies' slippers, bacon and eggs, Lotus corniculatus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bird's foot clover a common word?

bird's foot clover is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.