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cloverleaf

/kloh-ver-leef/US // ˈkloʊ vərˌlif //UK // (ˈkləʊvəˌliːf) //

苜蓿叶,四叶草,三叶草,苜蓿叶子

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural clo·ver·leafs, clo·ver·leaves.

    • : a road arrangement, resembling a four-leaf clover in form, for permitting easy traffic movement between two intersecting high-speed highways. One highway passes over the other, and both are joined by a system of curved feeder roads permitting vehicles to enter and leave the highways.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : shaped like or resembling a leaf or leaves of clover.

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Examples

  • You can’t just go tearing down highways and cloverleafs to make way for a light-rail network, at least not without great expense and complication.

  • It’s not just in highway medians, but also those cloverleaf interchanges.

  • Dark slowed and entered the cloverleaf that took him onto the bypass expressway.

  • The clubs of playing-cards are also no doubt an imitation of the cloverleaf.

  • Every cloverleaf sparkled and the leaves of wheat bristled like tiny spears.

  • Immediately, he put the groundcar in drive and whipped out of the cloverleaf under full acceleration.

  • From the archways some three dozen slidewalks curved out, tangenting off each other in a bewildering multiple cloverleaf.