A plant name, possibly referring to a plant with clover-like leaves or roots resembling cloves; used in traditional herbalism.
From clover + root, a compound descriptive name likely created in medieval herbal traditions to identify a plant by its most recognizable features or uses in folk medicine.
Herbalists needed ways to remember plants, so they'd describe them by what they looked like—'clove-root' probably meant 'the plant that looks clover-ish with a clove-like root,' saving people from having to carry reference books into forests.
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