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UK
/klˈiːvəz/
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NOUN
- annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia
How To Use cleavers In A Sentence
- Almost all the work here is done with minimal equipment: Chinese cleavers, wooden blocks, steamers and woks.
- In tea or pill form, these herbal preparations include burdock, buchu, cleavers, and horsetail. A Health Guide on the Safe and Proper Use of Diuretics
- Herbs such as iris versicolor, mullein, red root bark, burdock, echinacea, cleavers, red clover, ginger, yellow dock, sarsaparilla, elder flower and yarrow are good lymph movers and detoxifiers.
- 'cleavers' or 'cliver,' and the wild madder (_Rubia pelegrina_), are instances of this -- then there are others which send out simple tendrils from the point of each leaf. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852
- Many such plants, including the cleavers, have the means to crawl through anything - both its stems and seeds are covered in tiny barbs.
- On a return visit, my 4-year-old tablemate commented, "That looks dangerous" as spatulas and cleavers were tossed in the air.
- Cleavers is considered the best lymphatic tonic in the western herbal pharmacopoeia, and is both alterative and diuretic.
- Higher rates will be needed if spraying post-emergence especially if targeting the more difficult weeds such as cleavers and/or poppies with Katamaran (metazachlor + quinmerac). FWi - All News
- Therefore, cleavers, a fast-growing herbaceous annual with a scrambling-ascending growth habit, was chosen for this study.
- Finally, one other dried herb formula blends 2 parts echinacea, 1 part cleavers, 1 part goldenseal and 1 part phytolacca.