sainfoin
/seyn-foin/US // ˈseɪn fɔɪn //UK // (ˈsænfɔɪn) //
圣弗林,圣弗安,圣弗尼,圣弗里
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a Eurasian plant, Onobrychis viciifolia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of pink flowers, used for forage.
Examples
In spring the land is green with corn and oak trees, and pink with the pink of sainfoin flowers.
No experimental agriculturist ever studied his lucerne and sainfoin as they have studied the grasses of that field.
On land, once considered worthless, he cut four hundred tons of sainfoin from one hundred and four acres.
The two most striking exceptions are from foreign soil, the purple-blue lucerne and the crimson sainfoin.
There are occasional fields of sainfoin and of turnips; but these latter are small, and no ridging or hurdling is yet practised.
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