Trefoil

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Any of various plants of the genera Trifolium, Lotus, and related genera of the pea family, having compound trifoliate leaves.
  • n. An ornament, symbol, or architectural form having the appearance of a trifoliate leaf.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Any of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus Trifolium.
  • n. A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See clover, and medic.
  • n. An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
  • n. A charge representing the clover leaf.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In anatomy, the triangular area which forms the front part of a molar tooth; the protocone, paracone, and metacone lying at the angles. Same as trigon, 6.
  • n. A plant of the genus Trifolium; clover.
  • n. The third leaf put forth by a young plant.
  • n. An ornamental feathering or foliation used in medieval Pointed architecture in the heads of window-lights, tracery, panelings, etc., in which the spaces between the cusps represent a three-lobed figure.
  • n. In heraldry, a bearing supposed to represent a clover-leaf.
  • n. A bombycid moth, Lasiocampa trifolii, whose larva feeds on grass and clover in Europe. Also called grass-egger and clover-egger.
  • Characterized by the presence or prominence of a trefoil or trefoils; consisting of trefoils; thrice foliated.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
  • n. a plant of the genus Trifolium
  • n. an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle
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