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n. - Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles.

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Usage examples (3)
  • For he told her clivers tales and fables, of his awefull power among the other Gods, and stolne pleasures of his upon the earth; yet gracing her praises above all his...
  • The birds were lank black clivers (Plotus), exceedingly wild; the
  • The boys, attended by the footman, went out into the country, and returned laden with beautiful spoils from the hedges and copses, consisting of branches of trees, brushwood,...
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