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MELILOT

• MELILOT (noun)
The noun MELILOT has 1 sense:

1. erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement

Familiarity information: MELILOT used as a noun is very rare.

• MELILOT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

melilot; melilotus; sweet clover

Hypernyms ("melilot" is a kind of...):

ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "melilot"):

Melilotus alba; white melilot; white sweet clover (biennial plant; valuable honey plant)

Melilotus officinalis; yellow sweet clover (biennial yellow-flowered Eurasian plant having aromatic leaves used as carminative or flavoring agent; widely cultivated especially as green manure or cover crop)

Holonyms ("melilot" is a member of...):

genus Melilotus (Old World herbs: the sweet clovers)

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(English proverb)
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(Aboriginal Australian proverbs)
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(Arabic proverb)
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(Corsican proverb)

Useful links:
Meaning of Melilotus officinalis
Meaning of white melilot
Meaning of Melilotus alba
Meaning of genus Melilotus
Meaning of ligneous plant

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