MELILOTUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does melilotus mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MELILOTUS (noun)

Sense 1

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 ("melilotus" 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 "melilotus"):

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 ("melilotus" is a member of...):

genus Melilotus (Old World herbs: the sweet clovers)