alfalfa

English Thesaurus

1. leguminous plant grown for hay or forage (noun.food)

hypernym	:	fodder,
definition	:	coarse food (especially for livestock) composed of entire plants or the leaves and stalks of a cereal crop (noun.food)

part meronym	:	alfalfa, lucerne, medicago sativa,
definition	:	important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop (noun.plant)

2. important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	medic, medick, trefoil,
definition	:	any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves (noun.plant)

part holonym	:	alfalfa,
definition	:	leguminous plant grown for hay or forage (noun.food)