yellow sweet clover

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   biennial yellow-flowered Eurasian plant having aromatic leaves used as carminative or flavoring agent; widely cultivated especially as green manure or cover crop

   SynonymsMelilotus officinalis

   Broadermelilotus

Questions about yellow sweet clover

What does yellow sweet clover mean?

yellow sweet clover means "biennial yellow-flowered Eurasian plant having aromatic leaves used as carminative or flavoring agent; widely cultivated especially as green manure or cover crop".

What is another word for yellow sweet clover?

Close synonyms include Melilotus officinalis. 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 yellow sweet clover a common word?

yellow sweet 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.