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語源

From clover +‎ leaf.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkləʊvəliːf/
• (米国発音) enPR: klōʹvər-lēf, IPA: /ˈkloʊvɚliːf/

形容詞

cloverleaf (not comparable)

1. In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.

   a fancy cloverleaf motif

名詞

cloverleaf (plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) (see individual senses for plurals)

1. (with plural cloverleaves) The leaf of a clover plant.

   Hyponym: four-leaf clover

   Cloverleaves have a pealike flavor and make a nice accent among salad greens.

2. (US) (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) Ellipsis of cloverleaf interchange.

   The off-ramp will lead you along the cloverleaf to your next on-ramp.

   • 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:

     By the time we got into Tulsa Town
     We had eighty-five trucks in all
     But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf
     And them bears was wall-to-wall.

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動詞

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.
   • 2003, David Maraniss, They Marched Into Sunlight: War and Peace, Vietnam and America, October 1967:

     Hay told a military historian that Allen precipitated “the debacle” by “allowing his lead company to pursue the VC down the trail” instead of forming a perimeter and cloverleafing at the first sign of the enemy.