Definitions for Sainfoin

Sainfoin sain·foin

Spelling: [seyn-foin]
IPA: /ˈseɪn fɔɪn/

Sainfoin is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 153 anagrams from letters in Sainfoin (afiinnos).

Definitions for Sainfoin

noun

  1. a Eurasian plant, Onobrychis viciifolia, of the legume family, having pinnate leaves and clusters of pink flowers, used for forage.

Origin of Sainfoin

1620-30; French, equivalent to Middle French sain (Latin sānus healthy) + foin (Latin fēnum, faenum hay)

Examples for Sainfoin

sainfoin, as already intimated, is perennial in its habit of growth.

It has been found more difficult to get a good stand of sainfoin plants than of other varieties of the clover family.

The time to cut it is, as with clover and sainfoin, when it is in early flower.

A field of sainfoin in June, with its glorious blossoms of pink, is one of the prettiest sights in all creation.

Weeds, therefore, and sometimes grasses are much liable to come into the soil occupied by the sainfoin and to crowd the same.

The methods for making alfalfa hay will apply also to sainfoin.

Because of this it is specially important that sainfoin shall be sown on a clean seed-bed.

Besides beetroot for sugar, clover and sainfoin are grown, little or no barley, and neither turnips nor mangel-wurzel.

It feeds on the wild heartsease, also on sainfoin and borage.

The feeding value of sainfoin is much the same as that of alfalfa.

Word Value for Sainfoin
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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