(n)important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop, Syn.Medicago sativa, lucerne
n. [ Sp. ] (Bot.) The lucern (Medicago sativa), a leguminous plant having bluish purple cloverlike flowers, and cultivated for fodder; -- so called in California, Texas, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]