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lucerne

/luːˈsɜːn/

lucerne noun: alfalfa.

Noun

lucerne (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) Alfalfa.
    • I have mixed lucerne, partially cured, in alternate strata with dry barley-straw on the mow, and found that cattle greedily consumed both in winter, when fed out in the yard.1841, Jesse Buel, The Farmers' Instructor, volume 1, Harper and Brothers, pages 202-203
    • Harvesting.
      With the aid of thoroughly up-to-date machinery, lucerne haymaking on the farm has become a regular routine. Briefly, the hay is cut with an ordinary mower, drawn into windrows with a rotary rake, picked up by a hay loader, carted direct to a derrick press, baled and wired without the...1922, New South Wales Department of Agriculture, “Leguminous Crops”, in The Farmers' Handbook, 4th edition, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia: John Spence, page 557

Proper noun capitalized: Lucerne

Lucerne

  1. A canton of Switzerland.
    Synonyms:
    canton of Lucerne
  2. The capital city of Lucerne canton, Switzerland.
  3. A census-designated place in Lake County, California.
  4. An unincorporated community in Weld County, Colorado, named for the plant lucerne.
  5. An unincorporated community in Harrison Township, Cass County, Indiana.
  6. A ghost town in Adell Township, Sheridan County, Kansas.
  7. A former settlement in Pittsfield Township, Washtenaw County, Michigan.
  8. A village in Putnam County, Missouri.
  9. A ghost town in Center Township, Columbiana County, Ohio.
  10. An unincorporated community in Knox County, Ohio.
  11. An unincorporated community in Chelan County, Washington.
  12. An unincorporated community in Gilmer County, West Virginia.
  13. A census-designated place in Hot Springs County, Wyoming.

lucerne meaning in Tamil

lucerne in Tamil

உலூசேண் புல், குதிரை மசால், குதிரை மசால் செடி

Synonyms of lucerne

  • canton of Lucerne

Origin of lucerne

Borrowed from French luzerne, from Occitan luzerno, of uncertain origin.

From French Lucerne, known in Swiss German as Lozärn, from Medieval Latin Lucernense, Luciaria, Lucerna, of uncertain origin, but possibly from Latin lūcĭus (“pike”) with the suffix -ārĭa, as in "place with a large number of pike." Popular etymology associated it with lucerna (“lantern”), though both words are related to lux (“light”). Also compare Leodegar, Burgundian bishop of Autun.

Words formed from lucerne

Phrases with lucerne

Questions about lucerne

What does lucerne mean?
Lucerne means alfalfa.
What is lucerne in Tamil?
Lucerne in Tamil is உலூசேண் புல், குதிரை மசால், குதிரை மசால் செடி. See Lucerne meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is lucerne?
Lucerne can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce lucerne?
Lucerne is pronounced /luːˈsɜːn/ (UK).

Words near lucerne in the dictionary

  1. Luceres
  2. lucern
  3. lucernal
  4. lucernarian
  5. lucernarians
  6. lucerne
  7. Lucerne hammer
  8. Lucerne hammers
  9. Lucerne Valley
  10. lucerns
  11. Lucero

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lucerne (page history and authors); Lucerne (page history and authors); lucerne (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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