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Clove stalks are slender stems of the inflorescence axis that show opposite decussate branching. Externally, they are brownish, rough, and irregularly wrinkled longitudinally with short fracture and dry, woody texture. Mother cloves (anthophylli) are the ripe fruits of cloves that are ovoid, brown berries, unilocular and one-seeded.
Cloves are actually the flower buds of a tree called Syzygium aromaticum or simply, a clove tree. Native to Indonesia, the buds are harvested and then dried. Native to Indonesia, the buds are ...
A common idiom is "to be (or to live) in clover", meaning to live a carefree life of ease, comfort, or prosperity. [18] A common saying in surgery [regarding the appearance of wound after hemorrhoidectomy] is "If it looks like clover, the trouble is over; if it looks like dahlia, it’s surely a failure."
The results show that there is no one "true" species of shamrock, but that Trifolium dubium (lesser clover) is considered to be the shamrock by roughly half of Irish people, and Trifolium repens (white clover) by another third, with the remaining sixth split between Trifolium pratense (red clover), Medicago lupulina (black medick), Oxalis acetosella (wood sorrel), and various other species of ...
Clover is a modern given name derived from the common name for the plant, which was ultimately derived from the Old English word clāfre. [1] The name has associations with Ireland and with good fortune due to traditional tales about the Irish shamrock or four-leaf clover. [2]
Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
However, in Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa, cafuzo is used to refer to someone born of an African person and a person of mixed African and European ancestry. [7] Another possibility is that Sambo may be a corruption of the name Samba (meaning "second son" in the language of the Fulbe, an ethnicity spread throughout West Africa ...
A gilliflower or gillyflower (/ ˈ dʒ ɪ l i ˌ f l aʊ. ər /) [1] is the carnation or a similar plant of the genus Dianthus, especially the Clove Pink Dianthus caryophyllus. [2] Its botanical name is Matthiola incana, also known as stock. [3] The same name also describes other plants, such as the wallflower, which have fragrant flowers.