noun
- A butcher's knife having a large square blade.
- synonyms: cleaver, meat cleaver, chopper
- Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia.
- synonyms: clivers, goose grass, catchweed, spring cleavers, Galium aparine
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