Crossword clues for sainfoin
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sainfoin \Sain"foin\ (?; 277), n. [F., fr. sain wholesome (L. sanus; see Sane.) + foin hay (L. f[ae]num); or perh. fr. saint sacred (L. sanctus; see Saint) + foin hay.] (Bot.)
A leguminous plant ( Onobrychis sativa) cultivated for fodder. [Written also saintfoin.]
A kind of tick trefoil ( Desmodium Canadense). [Canada]
Wiktionary
n. A perennial herb of the genus ''Onobrychis'' with pale pink flowers, especially (taxlink Onobrychis sativa species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. Eurasian perennial herb having pale pink flowers and curved pods; naturalized in Britain and North America grasslands on calcareous soils; important forage crop and source of honey in Britain [syn: sanfoin, holy clover, esparcet, Onobrychis viciifolia, Onobrychis viciaefolia]
Wikipedia
Sainfoin (1887 – October 1911) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that was the winner of the 1890 Epsom Derby and was the sire of Rock Sand, the tenth winner of the Triple Crown in 1903.
Usage examples of "sainfoin".
These include Sainfoin, Egyptian clover, Yellow clover, Sand lucerne, Japanese clover, Beggarweed and Seaside clover.
Some of these, as Sainfoin and Buffalo clover, have been in the country for several years, and yet but little is known as to their behavior, except in very limited areas.
The word Sainfoin is equivalent to the French words for sound or wholesome hay.
From what has been said with reference to the distribution of sainfoin in Europe and Asia, it will be apparent that it is a hardy plant, which has highest adaptation for climates temperate and mild to moderately cool.
Weeds, therefore, and sometimes grasses are much liable to come into the soil occupied by the sainfoin and to crowd the same.
Because of this it is specially important that sainfoin shall be sown on a clean seed-bed.
The plan of sowing 2 to 3 pounds per acre of the seed of alsike clover along with the sainfoin would doubtless be found helpful under some conditions, as it would tend to thicken the crop, more especially the first season.
There were stone jars brimming with honey, preserved and dried fruits, salt meat, sainfoin, stockfeed, leather, pots and porringers, pitchers and porcelain, fragrances, essences, spices, saffron, scrim, shabrack, musk, muslin, madder, purpurin, talmigold, tragacanth, wax, and all other manner of provisions.
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.
Heaths, or places abounding in wild flowers, constitute the best neighbourhood for an apiary, and in default of this pasturage, there should be gardens where flowers are cultivated, and fields in which buck-wheat, clover, or sainfoin, is sown.
These include Sainfoin, Egyptian clover, Yellow clover, Sand lucerne, Japanese clover, Beggarweed and Seaside clover.