sainfoin

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

noun 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

From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).

The Marquise had been accused of conspiring against the Republic in 1793;[31] one of the chief counts against her being that she had laid down certain arable land on her estate at Champs, near Meaux, in lucerne, sainfoin, and clover, with the object of producing a famine. — Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record, William Austen-Leigh

sanfoin, holy clover, esparcet, Onobrychis viciifolia, Onobrychis viciaefolia

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