Noun
A leguminous plant (Onobrychis sativa) cultivated for fodder.
A kind of tick trefoil (Desmodium Canadense).
Source: Webster's dictionaryThere is at Paris likewife another sort of fodder which they call la lucern which is not inferior, but rather preferred before sainfoin. Every day produces some new things concerning it, not only in other countries but in our own. Samuel Hartlib