clover

English

zigzag clover Trifolium medium

Wikipedia

Wikispecies

Etymology

Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-Germanic *klaibrǭ (compare Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer, Dutch klaver, dialectal Low German Kleeber, Kleewer), enlargement of *klaiwaz (compare Plautdietsch Kjlee, German Klee), from Proto-Indo-European *glei- ‘to stick’ (compare Old Church Slavonic glěvŭ ‘slime’, Ancient Greek  (gloiós, “glue, tar”)). More at cleave, clay.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈkləʊ.və(ɹ)/, X-SAMPA: /"kl@U.v@(r\)/
• (US) IPA: /ˈkloʊ.vɚ/, X-SAMPA: /"kloU.v@`/
• Rhymes: -əʊvə(r)

Noun

clover (plural clovers)

1. (botany) A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.

Derived terms

Terms derived from clover

in clover

red clover

white clover

Hyponyms

• shamrock
• trefoil

Translations

plant in genus Trifolium

• Afrikaans: klawer (af)
• Albanian: tërfil (sq)
• Arabic: نفل (ar) (náfal) m
• Armenian: երեքնուկ (hy) (erek'nuk)
• Aromanian: trifoljiu (rup), trifolju (rup), trifiljiu (rup)
• Azeri: yonca (az)
• Belarusian: канюшына (be) (kanjušýna) f
• Bulgarian: детелина (bg) (detelina) f
• Catalan: trèvol (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 三葉草 (cmn), 三叶草 (cmn) (sānyècǎo), 苜 (cmn) (mù)

• Czech: jetel (cs) m
• Danish: kløver (da) c
• Dutch: klaver f
• Esperanto: trifolio (eo)
• Finnish: apila (fi)
• French: trèfle (fr) m
• Friulian: cerfoi, cerfuei
• Georgian: სამყურა (ka) (samqura)
• German: Klee (de) m
• Greek: τριφύλλι (el) (trifýlli) n
• Hindi: तिपतिया (hi) (tipatiyā) m, तिपतिया (hi) (tipatiyā) m
• Hungarian: lóhere (hu)
• Indonesian: semanggi (id)
• Italian: trifoglio (it) m
• Japanese: クローバー (ja) (kurōbā), 白詰草 (ja) (しろつめくさ, shirotsumekusa) (white clover)
• Kannada: ಕ್ಲವರ್ (kn) (klavar)

• Korean: 클로버 (ko) (keullobeo)
• Latin: trifolium (la)
• Latvian: āboliņš (lv)
• Lithuanian: dobilas (lt)
• Macedonian: детелина (mk) (detelina) f
• Malay: semanggi (ms)
• Maltese: silla (mt) f
• Norwegian: kløver (no)
• Occitan: trefuèlh (oc)
• Polish: koniczyna (pl) f
• Portuguese: trevo (pt) m
• Quechua: chikmu (qu), layu (qu)
• Romanian: trifoi (ro) n
• Russian: клевер (ru) (kléver) m
• Sardinian: tirifozi (sc), tirvozu (sc), travullu (sc), trevúgliu (sc), trivudhu (sc)
• Scottish Gaelic: seamrag (gd) f
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: детелина (sh) f

  Roman: detelina (sh) f

• Slovak: ďatelina (sk) f
• Spanish: trébol (es) m
• Swedish: klöver (sv) n
• Tagalog: klober (tl)
• Turkish: yonca (tr)
• Ukrainian: конюшина (uk) (konjušýna) f
• Uzbek: beda (uz)
• Vietnamese: cây xa trục thảo (vi)

Anagrams

• velcro, Velcro