"cloverleaf" meaning in All languages combined

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Adjective [English]

IPA: /ˈkləʊvəliːf/ [UK], /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/ [US] Audio: en-us-cloverleaf.ogg [US]
enPR: klōʹvər-lēf Etymology: clover + leaf Etymology templates: {{compound|en|clover|leaf}} clover + leaf Head templates: {{en-adj|-}} cloverleaf (not comparable)
  1. In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed. Tags: not-comparable Translations (in the form of cloverleaf): apila- (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-cloverleaf-en-adj--~62ZaJk
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: clover-leaf

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈkləʊvəliːf/ [UK], /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/ [US] Audio: en-us-cloverleaf.ogg [US] Forms: cloverleafs [plural], cloverleaves [plural]
enPR: klōʹvər-lēf Etymology: clover + leaf Etymology templates: {{compound|en|clover|leaf}} clover + leaf Head templates: {{en-noun|s|cloverleaves}} cloverleaf (plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves)
  1. (with plural cloverleaves) The leaf of a clover plant. Translations (leaf of a clover plant): apilanlehti (Finnish), Kleeblatt [neuter] (German), Kléiblat [neuter] (Luxembourgish)
    Sense id: en-cloverleaf-en-noun-8ChkD~WB Disambiguation of 'leaf of a clover plant': 99 1
  2. (US) (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) A cloverleaf interchange. Tags: US
    Sense id: en-cloverleaf-en-noun-bRWs~Bmh Categories (other): American English, English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 22 1 73 4
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: clover-leaf Derived forms: cloverleaf antenna, cloverleaf interchange, cloverleaf model, clover-leaf roll, clover-leaf sight, clover-leaf skull, cloverleaf skull, cloverleaf stack, cloverleaf tongue, clover leaf weevil

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈkləʊvəliːf/ [UK], /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/ [US] Audio: en-us-cloverleaf.ogg [US] Forms: cloverleafs [present, singular, third-person], cloverleafing [participle, present], cloverleafed [participle, past], cloverleafed [past]
enPR: klōʹvər-lēf Etymology: clover + leaf Etymology templates: {{compound|en|clover|leaf}} clover + leaf Head templates: {{en-verb}} cloverleaf (third-person singular simple present cloverleafs, present participle cloverleafing, simple past and past participle cloverleafed)
  1. (intransitive) To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-cloverleaf-en-verb-SVRUKpKM
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: clover-leaf

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.