clivers

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Noun1.Clivers - annual having the stem beset with curved pricklesclivers - annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
catchweed, cleavers, Galium aparine, goose grass, spring cleavers
bedstraw - any of several plants of the genus Galium
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She's got cliver fingers of her own, and can be useful enough when she likes and I should miss her wi' the butter, for she's got a cool hand.
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For I've often a deal inside me as'll never come out; and for what you talk o' your folks in your old country niver saying prayers by heart nor saying 'em out of a book, they must be wonderful cliver; for if I didn't know "Our Father", and little bits o' good words as I can carry out o' church wi' me, I might down o' my knees every night, but nothing could I say."
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Recreational clivers are allowed 6 Florida spiny lobsters per day.
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