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sweet clover or melilot , Eurasian and North African leguminous herbs of the genus Melilotus of the family Leguminosae ( pulse family). Sweet clovers, now widely naturalized in North America, are used as forage, cover, and soiling crops. Attractive to bees for their fragrant blossoms, they are also honey plants. Melilotus is a different genus from that of the true clovers. Sweet clover is classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | © The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English 2009, originally published by Oxford University Press 2009. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

sweet clov·er / swēt ˈklōvər/ • n. another term for melilot.

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melilot Sweet clover, a wild plant (Melilotus officinalis) which commonly grows in fields and on waste ground, especially on sandy soil; used as forage. The dried leaves have a sweet hay‐like aroma.

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