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cleavers

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cleav·ers  (klvrz)
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
See bedstraw.
[Middle English clivers, probably blend of clife, burdock (from Old English clfe) and clivres, claws (from Old English clifras, pl. of clifer).]
cleavers [ˈkliːvəz]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) (functioning as singular) a Eurasian rubiaceous plant, Galium aparine, having small white flowers and prickly stems and fruits Also called goosegrass hairif sticky willie
[Old English clīfe; related to clīfan to cleave2]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.cleaverscleavers - annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
catchweed, clivers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers
bedstraw - any of several plants of the genus Galium
Translations
cleavers [ˈkliːvəz] nsg (Bot) → attaccamani m inv, attaccavesti m inv
cleavers [ˈkliːvəz] nsg (Bot) → attaccamani m inv, attaccavesti m inv


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They were ready for a dance in half a second (Meg and Richard at the top); and the Drum was on the very brink of feathering away with all his power; when a combination of prodigious sounds was heard outside, and a good-humoured comely woman of some fifty years of age, or thereabouts, came running in, attended by a man bearing a stone pitcher of terrific size, and closely followed by the marrow-bones and cleavers, and the bells; not THE Bells, but a portable collection on a frame.
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Church, parson, clerk, beadle, glass-coach, bells, breakfast, bride-cake, favours, marrow-bones, cleavers, and all the rest of the tomfoolery.
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