[Sp. sulla.] A leguminous plant, Hedysarum coronarium (also called French honeysuckle), with flowers resembling those of the red clover, found in some Mediterranean countries. Also attrib.
1787. T. Jefferson, Writ. (1859), II. 202. The sulla of Malta, or Spanish St. Foin.
1818. Mrs. Iliff, Poems (ed. 2), 129. Lovely May Wreathing the sulla-flowers of brightest red, With ears of barley.
1895. Elisabeth Pullen, in Atlantic Monthly, 340. Patches of a rich magenta color show the bloom of the sulla, a sort of pink vetch, used as fodder for horses and cattle.
