Noun: alfalfa
| Singular | alfalfa |
| Plural | alfalfas |
Sample Sentences
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“No place for rabbits now, but I could easy build a few hutches and you could feed alfalfa to the rabbits.” [1937, John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, New York: Covici Friede, page 100:]
Nouns inflected like alfalfa
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. PIE word
2. *h₁éḱwos
3. Etymology tree
4. Proto-Indo-European *HéHḱus
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁éḱwos
6. Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háćwas
7. Proto-Iranian *Hácwah
8. Proto-Iranian *Hástiš
9. Proto-Iranian *HacwaHastiš
10. Old Median *aspāstišder.
11. Arabic فَصْفَص (faṣfaṣ)bor.
12. Old Spanish alfalfez
13. Spanish alfalfabor.
14. English alfalfa
15. From Spanish alfalfa, from Old Spanish alfalfez, from Arabic الْفَصْفَصَة (al-faṣfaṣa, “alfalfa, lucerne”). See: Spanish Nouns '
alfalfa', Old Spanish Nouns '
alfalfez'.
Verbs referencing "alfalfa"
Irish Nouns
alfalfa, German Nouns
Alfalfa.