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cloverleaf en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- klōʹvər-lēf (US)
- (US) audio
- /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/ (US)
- /ˈkləʊvəliːf/ (UK)
Etymology
From clover + leaf.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.
Forms
Translations (1)
fi apila- (in the form of cloverleaf)
cloverleaf en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- klōʹvər-lēf (US)
- (US) audio
- /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/ (US)
- /ˈkləʊvəliːf/ (UK)
Etymology
From clover + leaf.
Meanings
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(with plural cloverleaves) The leaf of a clover plant.
Cloverleaves have a pealike flavor and make a nice accent among salad greens.
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(US) (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) Ellipsis of cloverleaf interchange.
The off-ramp will lead you along the cloverleaf to your next on-ramp.
By the time we got into Tulsa Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
And them bears was wall-to-wall.
1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
Forms
Deriveds
cloverleaf antenna · parclo · cloverleaf skull · clover-leaf skull · clover-leaf sight · cloverleaf tongue · cloverleaf stack · clover-leaf roll · clover leaf weevil · cloverleaf interchange · cloverleaf model
Relateds
in clover
Translations (4)
nl klaverblad (leaf of a clover plant) · fi apilanlehti (leaf of a clover plant) · de Kleeblatt (leaf of a clover plant) · lb Kléiblat (leaf of a clover plant)
wikidata: Q11075207
cloverleaf en · VERB
Pronunciation
- klōʹvər-lēf (US)
- (US) audio
- /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/ (US)
- /ˈkləʊvəliːf/ (UK)
Etymology
From clover + leaf.
Meanings
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(intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.
2003, David Maraniss, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967:
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