资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Lucern \Lu"cern\, n. [F. luzerne.] (Bot.)
A leguminous plant ({Medicago sativa}), having bluish purple
cloverlike flowers, cultivated for fodder; -- called also
{alfalfa}. [Written also {lucerne}.]
Alfalfa \Al*fal"fa\, n. [Sp.] (Bot.)
The lucern ({Medicago sativa}); -- so called in California,
Texas, etc.
资料来源 : WordNet®
Medicago sativa
n : important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate
leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture
and hay crop [syn: {alfalfa}, {lucerne}]