Associations to the word «Cloverleaf»

Wiktionary

CLOVERLEAF, adjective. In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.
CLOVERLEAF, noun. (with plural cloverleaves) The leaf of a clover plant
CLOVERLEAF, noun. (US) (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) A cloverleaf interchange.
CLOVERLEAF, verb. (intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.
CLOVERLEAF INTERCHANGE, noun. (US) (Canada) A junction of two highways, one crossing over the other, having a series of exit and entrance ramps, arranged in the form of a four-leaf clover, such that traffic may proceed from either highway in all directions.
CLOVERLEAF INTERCHANGES, noun. Plural of cloverleaf interchange
CLOVERLEAF SKULL, noun. (pathology) craniosynostosis

Dictionary definition

CLOVERLEAF, noun. An interchange that does not require left-hand turns.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats