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sanfoin

sanfoin is the alternative form of sainfoin.

Meaning of sainfoin

Noun

sainfoin (countable and uncountable, plural sainfoins)

  1. A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).
    • I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143

Forms of sanfoin

pluralsanfoins

Questions about sanfoin

What is sanfoin the alternative form of?
Sanfoin is the alternative form of sainfoin.

Words near sanfoin in the dictionary

  1. Sanfey
  2. Sanfilippo
  3. Sanfilippo syndrome
  4. Sanfilippos
  5. SANFL
  6. sanfoin
  7. sanfoins
  8. Sanford
  9. Sanford's brown
  10. Sanford's brown lemur
  11. Sanford's lemur

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