moon trefoil

1. 1.

   evergreen shrub of southern European highlands having downy foliage and a succession of yellow flowers throughout the summer followed by curious snail-shaped pods

   SynonymsMedicago arborea

   Broadermedic

Questions about moon trefoil

What does moon trefoil mean?

moon trefoil means "evergreen shrub of southern European highlands having downy foliage and a succession of yellow flowers throughout the summer followed by curious snail-shaped pods".

What is another word for moon trefoil?

Close synonyms include Medicago arborea. 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 moon trefoil a common word?

moon trefoil 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.