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Clover is a grass and dicot. Is clover a tree?
by thriftwy 4y ago
Clover is a grass and dicot. Is clover a tree?
- samstave 4y agoHow tall are you?
- hammock 4y agoClover is grown on lawns...not sure how many people would call it a grass
- justinclift 4y agoMost people?
- thaumasiotes 4y agoNo? My guess would have been "zero people", for the obvious reason that clover isn't grass. Wiktionary doesn't even list a sense for "grass" that would include clover, and anyone can just add glosses there.
- thriftwy 4y agoHow do you call all the short-lived, green dicots growing in the meadows?
- thaumasiotes 4y agoDepends. What are you referring to? "Dicots" is not a category with any significance. Grass is mostly characterized by having blades instead of leaves. Other plants would be called... whatever they're called. If you want a generic term, it's "plants". If you want a term that refers to the specific function of covering what would otherwise be bare earth, that term is "ground cover", but ground cover is not restricted to plants. It applies just as well to gravel.
- Myrmornis 4y agoI'm confused. If you know clover is different from the green stuff with narrow leaves that grows in lawns, but you call clover grass, then what do you call the green stuff with narrow leaves?
- justinclift 4y ago"Grass" as well. It's on the lawn, it's green, it's not a weed. Therefore, it's grass. ;)
- thaumasiotes 4y agoBy this criterion a rosebush is "grass".
- justinclift 4y agoNah. Clearly a bush or tree, unless it's still just at grass height. :)
- thaumasiotes 4y agoSorry, was the rosebush off the lawn, not green, or a weed?
- justinclift 4y agoI don't know, you seem to be the expert. You tell me. :)
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