Alfalfa is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ALFALFA in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the fodder plant lucerne
• a leguminous plant with clover-like leaves and bluish flowers, native to south-western Asia and widely grown for fodder.
• kind of plant used to feed livestock
• The lucern (Medicago sativa); -- so called in California, Texas, etc.
• important European leguminous forage plant with trifoliate leaves and blue-violet flowers grown widely as a pasture and hay crop
• leguminous plant grown for hay or forage
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a plant cultivated for use as hay and forage

Words related to ALFALFA

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Words that contain ALFALFA

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How to use ALFALFA in a sentence

• The wedge-shaped valley, green with alfalfa and cottonwood, and nestling down amid the bare walls of yellow rock, was a delight and a relief to his tired eyes.
• We cut two more crops from the alfalfa field, which together made a yield of a little more than 2 tons.
• The Captain had to enclose his precious alfalfa fields with rabbit-proof wire to prevent utter destruction.
• In season, winter or spring rye, clover, alfalfa, barley, and rape all make excellent pasture.
• Striding to a feed-stall filled with alfalfa, he tossed the hay aside and dragged to the light a saddle.
• Alfalfa should be cut a little earlier, or just when it is nicely coming into bloom, as if cut later the shedding of the leaves in the curing is likely to be large.
• In other States areas are found in which alfalfa will produce excellent crops, but usually these do not embrace the larger portion of the entire area in any State.
• In this region alfalfa grows more vigorously and more persistently than in almost any other portion of the United States.
• Instances are on record wherein ice has formed on alfalfa and yet the plants survived, but such a condition will usually prove fatal to them.
• Alfalfa is sometimes sown, and with profit, on steep hill sides which are inclined to wash.
• Alfalfa is usually sown alone, but in some instances it maybe advantageous to sow more or less of some other kind or kinds of grass or clover along with it.
• Under some conditions also in the Atlantic States, the most satisfactory results have been obtained from sowing alfalfa in rows 14 to 16 inches apart and cultivating between them.
• In some areas alfalfa will maintain its hold on lands smitten with Johnson grass, both producing freely.
• Judicious care should be exercised in grazing alfalfa lest the stand of the plants shall be injured.
• In areas where considerable rain falls in the autumn, hay sheds will prove a great convenience in storing alfalfa in the absence of better facilities.
• The straw not only aids in preserving the alfalfa in good condition, but the alfalfa imparts an aroma to the straw which induces live stock to eat it readily.
• Alfalfa fine in character is now manufactured into food suitable for calves and other young stock.
• The idea of stirring the surface soil in alfalfa fields is by no means new.
• In the mountain valleys it would probably succeed, but in these alfalfa and some other varieties of clover will give far better returns.
• It grows very early in the season, quite as early, if not earlier, than alfalfa, and continues to grow until autumn.
• In this fact is found one of the strongest reason why it should be grown in areas where alfalfa is wanted for pasture.
• If grown thus, however, it should not be as a substitute for alfalfa, but rather to occupy the ground in winter when not producing otherwise.
• The stalks are about the same in structure as those of alfalfa, and like alfalfa they do not lodge readily.
• Green of alfalfa and orchard and walnut trees contrasted vividly with a bare, gray slope on one side, and a red, rugged mountain on the other.

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