prairie trefoil

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   North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers

   Synonymsprairie bird's-foot trefoilcompass plantprairie lotusLotus americanus

   Broadersubshrub

Questions about prairie trefoil

What does prairie trefoil mean?

prairie trefoil means "North American annual with red or rose-colored flowers".

What is another word for prairie trefoil?

Close synonyms include prairie bird's-foot trefoil, compass plant, prairie lotus, Lotus americanus. 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 prairie trefoil a common word?

prairie 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.