holy clover

Questions about holy clover

What does holy clover mean?

holy clover means "Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain".

What is another word for holy clover?

Close synonyms include sainfoin, sanfoin, esparcet, Onobrychis viciifolia, Onobrychis viciaefolia. 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 holy clover a common word?

holy 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.