cloverleaf

adj

1. (not-comparable)In the form of the leaf of a clover plant; cloverleafed.

   “a fancy cloverleaf motif”

noun

1. The leaf of a clover plant.

   “Cloverleaves have a pealike flavor and make a nice accent among salad greens.”

2. (US)(with plural cloverleafs or cloverleaves) Ellipsis of cloverleaf interchange.

   “The off-ramp will lead you along the cloverleaf to your next on-ramp.”

   “By the time we got into Tulsa Town We had eighty-five trucks in all But there's a roadblock up on the cloverleaf And them bears was wall-to-wall.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To turn by following a cloverleaf, or as if by following one.

   “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.”