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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (2)
1. important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop;
[syn: alfalfa, lucerne, Medicago sativa]
2. leguminous plant grown for hay or forage;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lucern \Lu"cern\, n. [F. luzerne.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Medicago sativa), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa. [Written also lucerne.] [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Alfalfa \Al*fal"fa\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.) The lucern (Medicago sativa), a leguminous plant having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, and cultivated for fodder; -- so called in California, Texas, etc. [1913 Webster]
