cleavers

name

1. plural of Cleaver

noun

Etymology: From Middle English clivers, probably from Old English clife (“burdock”).

1. Galium aparine, a herbaceous annual bedstraw of the family Rubiaceae.

   “Quinmerac is primarily used for the post-emergence control of cleavers, speedwells and other broad-leaved weeds in cereals, oilseed rape and sugar beet.”