Noun: cleavers
Sample Sentences
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Quinmerac is primarily used for the post-emergence control of cleavers, speedwells and other broad-leaved weeds in cereals, oilseed rape and sugar beet. [1998, Terry R. Roberts, Metabolic Pathways of Agrochemicals (part 1, page 448)]
Nouns inflected like cleavers
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English clivers, probably from Old English clife (“burdock”). See: Old English Nouns '
clife'.