alfalfa
紫花苜蓿,苜蓿,苜蓿草,苜蓿花
Definitions
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- : a plant, Medicago sativa, of the legume family, usually having bluish-purple flowers, originating in the Near East and widely cultivated as a forage crop.
Examples
A majority of the water used by farms — and thus much of the river — goes to growing nonessential crops like alfalfa and other grasses that feed cattle for meat production.
In his younger days, Ed cut alfalfa with a team of horses, and lived the progression from horse to tractor.
The 475-square-foot shop is extending its hours for summer, and debuting new picnic-ready sandwiches such as the Top Knot, a sub topped with turkey, cheddar, green apple slices, alfalfa sprouts and a slather of rosé-infused mayo.
As it’s there, microbes are breaking down the body and breaking down the wood chips, alfalfa, and straw to create this beautiful soil.
The Alfalfa Club dinner crowd in tiaras was the order of the night.
A small flowering plant in the pea family, Fabaceae, known as alfalfa.
They will concentrate instead on farming their 1,900 acres of alfalfa, 1,600 acres of corn, and 1,400 acres of soybeans.
He was presented with a special Alfalfa medallion for a lifetime of civility, good cheer, and good fellowship.
They grew up as crop and dairy farmers in Iowa, tending corn, soy, alfalfa, hay, oats and clover.
I'll try alfalfa in that field next and then I'll rub Aladdin's lamp.
Alfalfa, al-fal′fa, n. a Spanish name for a variety of lucerne—used also in some parts of the United States.
After three o'clock I sat here in a cool room by an open window watching Papa mow alfalfa and the men stack grain.
Here he owns two hundred acres of alfalfa land and he is also engaged quite extensively in dairying and in fruit raising.
Four ploughs were kept steadily at work, and the ground was sown with alfalfa or lucern, as fast as it was got into condition.