Cloverleaf

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ˈkləʊvÉ™liːf/
• US enPR: klōʹvÉ™r-lÄ“f, IPA: /ˈkloÊŠvÉšliːf/

Alternative forms

• clover-leaf

Full definition of cloverleaf

Adjective

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

Derived terms

• cloverleaf interchange

Noun

1. (with plural cloverleaves) The leaf of a clover plant
2. (US) (with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) A cloverleaf interchange.

Derived terms

• cloverleaf antenna
• cloverleaf interchange
• cloverleaf model
• clover-leaf roll
• clover-leaf sight
• clover-leaf skull, cloverleaf skull
• cloverleaf stack
• clover leaf weevil

Verb

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.