sainfoinとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From French sainfoin, from sain (“healthy, healthful”) + foin (“hay”).

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈsænfɔɪn/, /ˈseɪnfɔɪn/

名詞

sainfoin (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 sainfoins)

1. A perennial herb of the genus Onobrychis with pale pink flowers, especially Onobrychis viciifolia (syn. Onobrychis sativa).
   • 1992, Moncrieff/Kilmartin/Enright, translating Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, Folio Society 2005, p. 143:

     I saw a breath of wind emerge from the furthest horizon, bowing over the heads of corn in distant fields, pouring like a flood over all that vast expanse, and finally come to rest, warm and rustling, among the clover and sainfoin at my feet […]

派生語

• Spanish sanfoin (Onobrychis iberica)

アナグラム

• sinfonia