Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1968 (SND Vol. VII).
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†POVERTY-PINK, n.comb. The clover, a plant of the genus Trifolium, so called from its ability to grow in exhausted or sterile soils (Bwk. c.1850 M. A. Denham Tracts (1892) I. 36).
