| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| Alyce clover |
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| SYLLABICATION: | Al·yce clover |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   l  s |
| VARIANT FORMS: | or al·yce clover |
| NOUN: | A tropical Asiatic herb (Alysicarpus vaginalis) with alternate, simple leaves and reddish flowers, grown as a pasture and hay crop and naturalized in Florida and the West Indies. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Probably by folk etymology from New Latin Alysicarpus, genus name : Greek halusis, chain; see wel-2 in Appendix I + Greek karpos, fruit; see –carp.
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