cloverleaf

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   In the form of the leaf of a clover plant

   In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.

   • a fancy cloverleaf motif
2. 2

   The leaf of a clover plant.

   • Cloverleaves have a pealike flavor and make a nice accent among salad greens.
3. 3

   (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) Ellipsis of cloverleaf interchange.

   • The off-ramp will lead you along the cloverleaf to your next on-ramp.
   • By the time we got into Tulsa Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf And them bears was wall-to-wall.
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   1. 4

      To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.

      • Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.

The neighborhood

• neighborin clover