alfalfa Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
    lucerne; Medicago sativa.
  2. noun leguminous plant grown for hay or forage

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Al*fal"fa noun
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  1. (Bot.) The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.

Webster 1913