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Definition of Alfalfa
1. Noun. Important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop.
2. Noun. Leguminous plant grown for hay or forage.
Definition of Alfalfa
1. n. The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.
Definition of Alfalfa
1. Noun. A plant, ''Medicago sativa'', grown as a pasture crop. ¹
2. Noun. A type or breed of this plant. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Alfalfa
1. a plant cultivated for use as hay and forage [n -S]
Medical Definition of Alfalfa
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Alfalfa
Literary usage of Alfalfa
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bulletin by New Jersey, Dept. of Agriculture, New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture (1918)
"alfalfa responds readily to these methods of inoculation, and nearly all plants will
... If the infected soil is mixed with the alfalfa seed and then sown, ..."
2. Annual Report by Illinois Farmers' Institute (1916)
"alfalfa. There is something that is absolutely necessary there. ... It is the
lack of inoculation that has killed out many fields of alfalfa. ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry, Division of Plant Industry, Queensland (1910)
"Introduction to bulletin ( Irrigation, autumn, effect on alfalfa 4 Italian alfalfa.
... Chinook, experiments with Grimm alfalfa 25-27 Milk River Valley, ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1909)
"These observations indicate that another explanation of the hardiness of this
alfalfa is at hand. Instead of its being pure Medicago sativa, ..."
5. Breeding Crop Plants by Herbert Kendall Hayes, Ralph John Garber (1921)
"Piper et al (1914) found that alfalfa set more seed when ... Westgate (1910) and
later Brand (1911) suggest that the origin of Grimm alfalfa is probably the ..."
6. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1907)
"It should be known that alfalfa was independently introduced in the East, although
its present vogue has been quickened by the interest arising in the West. ..."
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