Definition of Stinking clover

1. Noun. Plant of western North America having trifoliate leaves and white or pink spider-shaped flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Stinking Clover

stinkeroo
stinkeroos
stinkers
stinketh
stinkhorn
stinkhorns
stinkier
stinkiest
stinkily
stinkin'
stinkiness
stinking
stinking bean trefoil
stinking cedar
stinking chamomile
stinking clover (current term)
stinking elder
stinking gladwyn
stinking goosefoot
stinking hellebore
stinking horehound
stinking iris
stinking mayweed
stinking nightshade
stinking on ice
stinking smut
stinking wattle
stinking weed
stinking yew
stinkingly

Literary usage of Stinking clover

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Weeds: With Descriptions of All the Most Pernicious and by Ada Eljiva Georgia (1914)
"Other English names: Clammy Clover, stinking clover. Native. Annual. Propagates by seeds. Time of bloom: June to August. Seed-time: Late July to October. ..."

2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"(Name of uncertain derivation, early applied to some mustard-like plant. ) 1. C. serrulata I'ursh. (stinking clover. ..."

3. Key and Flora: Northern and Central States by Joseph Young Bergen (1908)
"ROCKY MOUNTAIN BEE PLANT, stinking clover. A smooth plant 2 ft. or more high. Leaves with 3 leaflets. Flowers pink, showy, in leafy-bracted racemes. ..."

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