cleavers means galium aparine, a herbaceous annual bedstraw of the family Rubiaceae.
Etymology
From Middle English clivers, probably from Old English clife (“burdock”).
noun
- 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.”