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clovery

clovery adjective: resembling or containing clover.

Adjective

clovery (comparative more clovery, superlative most clovery)

  1. Resembling or containing clover.
    • It may not be generally known that the quality most suitable for the English market is a strong clovery hay, the more clovery the better. For Scotland, however, a clean, clear timothy with a very small percentage of clover.1895, Sessional Papers of the Parliament of the Dominion of Canada

Forms of clovery

comparativemore clovery
superlativemost clovery

Origin of clovery

From clover + -y.

Questions about clovery

What does clovery mean?
Clovery means resembling or containing clover.
What part of speech is clovery?
Clovery is an adjective.

Words near clovery in the dictionary

  1. cloverleaves
  2. cloverlike
  3. cloveroot
  4. cloveroots
  5. clovers
  6. clovery
  7. cloves
  8. CLOVES syndrome
  9. clovetree
  10. clovewort
  11. cloveworts

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