alfalfa

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Much of the alfalfa and oats are grown to sustain the ranching.

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

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noun

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

noun

leguminous plant grown for hay or forage

Definitions

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noun

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

noun

leguminous plant grown for hay or forage

Example sentences

Much of the alfalfa and oats are grown to sustain the ranching.

Farmers flood the land to grow rice, alfalfa and other thirsty crops.

The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow.

My fathers specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any.

You are probably in more danger of getting food poisoning from alfalfa sprouts than you are from a t-bone.

Almonds also look rather nice - certainly much more interesting than alfalfa.

Relevant to your particular question, alfalfa uses ~20% of the irrigation water in the state.

An open water market would allow both cities and environmental groups to pay farmers far more than they currently make growing alfalfa.\n<<<Terrible!

The real destroyers of the American food supply are the 7 major crops that have been transgenically modified with bacteria that produces insecticide and herbicide resistant bacteria so they can spray the crops with herbs: Corn, soy, cottonseed, alfalfa, papaya, canola, sugar beets.