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zigzag clover (Trifolium medium)

From Middle English clovere, claver, from Old English clāfre, earlier clǣfre, from Proto-West Germanic *klaibrā. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Kleeuwer, Low German Klaver, Klever, Dutch klaver, all “clover”. More distantly also related with German Klee.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkləʊ.və(ɹ)/
• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkloʊ.vɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈkləʉ.və(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -əʊvə(ɹ)

clover (plural clovers)

1. A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
   • 1636, G[eorge] S[andys], “[A Paraphrase upon the Second Booke of the Psalmes of David.] Psalme LXV.”, in A Paraphrase upon the Psalmes of David. And upon the Hymnes Dispersed throughout the Old and New Testaments, London: [Andrew Hebb […]], →OCLC, page 101:
     He Raine upon her [the Earth's] boſom poures; / His ſvvelling clouds abound vvith ſhoures: / […] / The Deſert with ſvveet claver fills; / And richly ſhades the joyfull Hills.
2. (cartomancy) The second Lenormand card, representing hope, optimism and short-term luck.

• claver (obsolete)

• shamrock

• trefoil

• Bokhara clover

• brown clover (Trifolium badium)

• bush clover (Lespedeza spp.)

• Caucasian clover

• clover clamp

• Cloverdale

• clovered

• Clover Flat

• clover grass

• cloverleaf

• cloverlike

• clover louse

• clover mite

• clover weevil (Apion apricans etc.)

• clover worm (Asopia costalis)

• clovery

• Cooper clover

• crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum)

• Dutch clover (Trifolium repens)

• Egyptian clover (Trifolium alexandrinum)

• four-leaf clover, four-leafed clover, four-leaved clover

• hart's clover (Melilotus)

• heart clover (Medicago arabica)

• hop clover

• in clover

• jackass clover

• Japan clover

• Japanese clover

• kura clover

• lemon clover (Oxalis stricta)

• like a bee in clover

• like a pig in clover

• like pigs in clover

• lucky clover

• lupine clover

• Menindee clover

• mountain carpet clover (Trifolium monanthum)

• owl's clover

• prairie clover (Dalea spp.)

• rare as a four-leaf clover

• red clover (Trifolium pratense)

• rolling in clover

• round-headed bush clover (Lespedeza capitata)

• snail clover (Medicago scutellata etc.)

• Spanish clover

• strawberry clover

• sub clover

• subterranean clover

• suckling clover

• sweet clover, sweet-clover (Melilotus spp.)

• water clover

• white clover (Trifolium repens)

• → Catalan: clóver

plant in genus Trifolium

• Afrikaans: klawer

• Albanian: tërfil (sq)

• Arabic: نَفَل (ar) m (nafal)

• Armenian: երեքնուկ (hy) (erekʻnuk), խնձորուկ (hy) (xnjoruk), սիրի-սիրի (hy) (siri-siri)

• Aromanian: trifoljiu, trifolju, trifiljiu

• Asturian: trébole m

• Azerbaijani: yonca (az)

• Bats: სამყურაჸო̂ (samq̇uraʾô)

• Belarusian: канюшы́на f (kanjušýna)

• Breton: melchon (br)

• Bulgarian: детели́на (bg) f (detelína)

• Burmese: ကလိုဗါပင် (ka.luibapang)

• Catalan: trèvol (ca) m

• Chinese:
  Cantonese: 三葉草 / 三叶草 (saam1 jip6 cou2)
  Mandarin: 三葉草 / 三叶草 (zh) (sānyècǎo), 苜 (zh) (mù)

• Cornish: mellyon

• Crimean Tatar: yonca

• Czech: jetel (cs) m

• Danish: kløver c

• Dutch: klaver (nl) f

• Esperanto: trifolio

• Estonian: ristikhein (et)

• Faroese: smæra f

• Finnish: apila (fi)

• French: trèfle (fr) m

• Frisian:
  Saterland Frisian: Kleeuwer m

• Friulian: cerfoi, cerfuei

• Gagauz: yonca

• Galician: trevo (gl) m

• Gallo: treuf' f

• Georgian: სამყურა (ka) (samq̇ura)

• German: Klee (de) m

• Greek: τριφύλλι (el) n (trifýlli)
  Ancient Greek: τρίφυλλον n (tríphullon)

• Hebrew: תִּלְתָּן (he) m (tiltán)

• Hindi: तिपतिया m (tipatiyā)

• Hungarian: lóhere (hu)

• Icelandic: smári (is) m

• Ido: trifolio (io)

• Indonesian: semanggi (id)

• Ingrian: häryt, kleeveri

• Irish: seamair f

• Italian: trifoglio (it) m

• Japanese: クローバー (ja) (kurōbā), 白詰草 (ja) (しろつめくさ, shirotsumekusa) (white clover), 車軸草 (ja) (しゃじくそう, shajikusō)

• Kannada: ಕ್ಲವರ್ (klavar)

• Karaim: yonca

• Karakalpak: jońıshqa

• Kashubian: kòniczëna, kléwer m

• Kazakh: беде (bede)

• Korean: 클로버 (ko) (keullobeo)

• Krymchak: yonca

• Kumyk: ёнгурчгъа (yoñurçğa)

• Kyrgyz: жоңгучка (ky) (joŋgucka)

• Latin: trifolium n, cytisus m

• Latvian: āboliņš (lv) m

• Limburgish: kliè, klieë (li), klaver (li)

• Lithuanian: dobilas m

• Luxembourgish: Kléi m

• Macedonian: детелина f (detelina)

• Malay: semanggi

• Maltese: silla (mt) f

• Manx: shamrag f

• Māori: korouwa, koroua, korowa

• Mingrelian: სუმჸუჯა (sumʾuǯa)

• Nahuatl:
  Classical Nahuatl: Caxtīllān ocōxōchitl, trebol

• Nogai: йорынша (yorınşa)

• Norwegian:
  Bokmål: kløver (no) m
  Nynorsk: kløver m

• Occitan: trefuèlh m

• Old English: clāfre f, clǣfre f

• Old Prussian: wobilis

• Pannonian Rusyn: бетелїна f (beteljina), требиконїна f (trebikonjina) (Kucura)

• Persian: شبدر (fa) (šabdar)

• Polish: koniczyna (pl) f, dzięcielina (pl) f

• Portuguese: trevo (pt) m

• Quechua: chikmu, layu, ispinku

• Romanian: trifoi (ro) n

• Russian: кле́вер (ru) m (kléver)

• Salar: musi

• Sami:
  Northern Sami: luovvar

• Sardinian: tirifozi, tirvozu, travullu, trevúgliu, trivudhu

• Scottish Gaelic: seamrag f

• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: детелина f
  Latin: detelina (sh) f

• Slovak: ďatelina f

• Slovene: detelja (sl) f

• Sorbian:
  Lower Sorbian: źiśelina f
  Upper Sorbian: dźećel (hsb) m

• Spanish: trébol (es) m

• Svan: სამყურ (samq̇ur), პერპილ (ṗerṗil)

• Swedish: klöver (sv) n

• Tagalog: klober

• Tatar: тукранбаш (tt) (tuqranbaş)

• Thai: โคลเวอร์

• Tongan: kihikihipālangi

• Turkish: yonca (tr), tirfil (tr), üçgül (tr)
  Ottoman Turkish: یونجه (yonca), طرفیل (tırfıl)

• Turkmen: ýorunja

• Tuvan: меде (mede)

• Ukrainian: конюши́на f (konjušýna)

• Urum: yonca

• Uzbek: beda (uz), yoʻngʻichqa (uz)

• Vietnamese: cỏ ba lá

• Vilamovian: kłej m

• Welsh: meillion

• Yiddish: קאָנישינע f (konishine)

• Zazaki: once n

• Velcro, Colver, velcro