clover

noun
/ˈkləʊ.və(ɹ)/UK/ˈkloʊ.vɚ/US/ˈkləʉ.və(ɹ)/

Etymology

From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic *klaibrā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer, Low German Klaver, Klever, Dutch klaver, all “clover”. More distantly also related with German Klee.

  1. inherited from *klaibrā
  2. inherited from clāfre
  3. inherited from clovere

Definitions

  1. A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four)…

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

    • He Raine upon her [the Earth's] boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures: / […] / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.
  2. The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.

  3. A surname.

  4. + 1 more definition
    1. A number of places in the United States

      A number of places in the United States:

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at clover. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at clover. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at clover

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA