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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. 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.