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Answer for the clue "Swiss city — alfalfa ", 7 letters:
lucerne

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lucerne , Luzern , or Luzerne may be:

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lucern \Lu"cern\, n. [F. luzerne.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant ( Medicago sativa ), having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also alfalfa . [Written also lucerne .]

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 2870 Housing Units (2000): 1814 Land area (2000): 6.108969 sq. miles (15.822157 sq. km) Water area (2000): 13.365606 sq. miles (34.616758 sq. km) Total area (2000): 19.474575 sq. miles (50.438915 sq. km) FIPS code: 44406 Located within: ...

Usage examples of lucerne.

I told her circumstantially all I had done, in spite of my promise to consult her, and I sent her copies of all the letters to convince her that our enemy had gone to Lucerne with the idea that her vengeance had been only an imaginary one.

If you see the apostolic nuncio at Lucerne, ask him about me, and he will tell you what sort of a reputation I have in Europe.

These include Sainfoin, Egyptian clover, Yellow clover, Sand lucerne, Japanese clover, Beggarweed and Seaside clover.

No experimental agriculturist ever studied his lucerne and sainfoin as they have studied the grasses of that field.

Lavoisier to the Committee in 1788 he described the results of ten years of hard labor on his model farm at Fre-chines, where he spent three years attempting to create lucerne meadows before switching more successfully to clover and sainfoin, and introducing the potato and field beets.

These include Sainfoin, Egyptian clover, Yellow clover, Sand lucerne, Japanese clover, Beggarweed and Seaside clover.

The usual patch round a well would include a few date-palms, perhaps an apricot tree, and an acre or two of Bersim, the clover of the country, and a kind of Lucerne.

When my visit was over I joined the rest of my family at Fluellen on the Lake of Lucerne.

The Odynerus has for its instinctive mission to arrest the excessive multiplication of a lucerne weevil, no less than twenty-four of whose grubs are necessary to rear the offspring of the brigand, and nearly sixty gadflies are sacrificed to the growth of a single Bembex.

As I do not desire that we should meet again, I shall go to Lucerne on the pretext of family concerns.

I told her circumstantially all I had done, in spite of my promise to consult her, and I sent her copies of all the letters to convince her that our enemy had gone to Lucerne with the idea that her vengeance had been only an imaginary one.

Zurich, however, along with Berne, Lucerne, and Solothurn agreed to defend the Aargau, the region adjoining Alsace along the river Aar, because it touched their borders and was their “boulevard.

Irving, Windsor, Lorraine, Plymouth, Beachwood, Larchmont, Lucerne, Arden, Rossmore.

Some were disposed of in a sale organised by the Fischer Art Gallery of Lucerne on June 30, 1939.

Possibly at the turn of the century it had been a holiday home for some wealthy Frenchman, a carved balcony on the upper-floor affording a magnificent view of the Chateau Gutsch and within walking distance of Lake Lucerne itself.