medicago sativa

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   important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop

   Synonymsalfalfalucerne

   Broadermedic

   Partsalfalfa

Questions about medicago sativa

What does medicago sativa mean?

medicago sativa means "important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop".

What is another word for medicago sativa?

Close synonyms include alfalfa, lucerne. 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 medicago sativa a common word?

medicago sativa 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.