buffalo clover

Questions about buffalo clover

What does buffalo clover mean?

buffalo clover means "low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock poisoning in the southwestern United States". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for buffalo clover?

Close synonyms include bluebonnet, Texas bluebonnet, Lupinus subcarnosus, Trifolium reflexum, Trifolium stoloniferum. 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 buffalo clover a common word?

buffalo 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.