hop clover

Questions about hop clover

What does hop clover mean?

hop clover means "prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for hop clover?

Close synonyms include black medick, yellow trefoil, nonesuch clover, Medicago lupulina, shamrock. 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 hop clover a common word?

hop clover is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.