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alsike

[al-sahyk, -sik, awl-]

noun

a European clover, Trifolium hybridum, having pink flowers, grown in the U.S. for forage.

Also called al·sike.

Origin:
1850–55; after Alsike, near Uppsala, Sweden

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a fool or simpleton; ninny.

a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

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alsike (ˈælsaɪk, -sɪk, ˈɔːl-)

—n
	Also called: alsike clover a clover, Trifolium hybridum, native to Europe and Asia but widely cultivated as a forage crop. It has trifoliate leaves and pink or whitish flowers

[C19: named after Alsike, Sweden]

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