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Trefoil

noun
1.
Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.  Synonyms: medic, medick.
2.
A plant of the genus Trifolium.  Synonym: clover.
3.
An architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle.



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"Trefoil" Quotes from Famous Books



... maize is now up, and about three inches high. It is sowed in rows two feet or two and a half feet apart, and is pretty thick in the row. Doubtless they mean to thin it. There is a great deal of a forage they call farouche. It is a species of red trefoil, with few leaves, a very coarse stalk, and a cylindrical blossom of two inches in length, and three quarters of an inch in diameter, consisting of floscules, exactly as does that of the red clover. It seems to be a coarse ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson

... miles over 2,000. Wexford is lower and more fertile. The coasts of both counties are in great measure flat and sandy, and are the home of many rare plants. A number of species of light soils and of gravelly shores have here their Irish headquarters, such as the Round-headed Trefoil (Trifolium glomeratum) the Sea-Stock (Matthiola sinuata), the rare Sea-Cudweed (Diotis candidissima), and the Wild Asparagus (A. officinalis). The Murrough, a great gravel beach backed by salt marshes which extends from Greystones to Wicklow, and the ...
— The Sunny Side of Ireland - How to see it by the Great Southern and Western Railway • John O'Mahony and R. Lloyd Praeger

... colour the same, and as pleasantly acid to the taste now under the ripening nuts as in May. At its coming it is folded almost like a. green flower; at Midsummer, when you are gathering ferns, you find its trefoil deep under the boughs; it grows, too, in the crevices of the rock over the spring. The whortleberry leaves, that were green as the myrtle when the wood-sorrel was in bloom, have faded somewhat now that their berries are ripening. Another beech has gone over, and lies at full ...
— Field and Hedgerow • Richard Jefferies

... year, 1760, we find him sowing clover, rye, grass, hope, trefoil, timothy, spelt, which was a species of wheat, and various other grasses and vegetables, most of them to all intents and purposes unknown to the ...
— George Washington: Farmer • Paul Leland Haworth

... the horrid German weapon called a morning star. Also meadow-sweet, meadow-rue, and comfrey of every shade of purple, the water avens and forget-me-not, also that loveliest plant the bog-bean, with trefoil leaves and feathery blossoms. Orchis latifolia is in plenty, and also Orchis incarnata, sometimes called the Romsey orchis. Of late years the mimulus has gilded the bank of one of the ditches. Is it compensation for the Pinguicula vulgaris, which has been drained away, or the mountain ...
— John Keble's Parishes • Charlotte M Yonge



Words linked to "Trefoil" :   architectural ornament, dutch clover, sickle lucerne, alpine clover, yellow trefoil, Medicago echinus, Medicago falcata, Italian clover, alfalfa, Medicago lupulina, Calvary clover, herbaceous plant, Trifolium stoloniferum, herb, nonesuch clover, medic, lucerne, red clover, Trifolium incarnatum, sickle medick, buffalo clover, sickle alfalfa, Medicago intertexta, Medicago sativa, black medick, Trifolium, genus Medicago, Trifolium pratense, stinking bean trefoil, hop clover, Trifolium repens, Trifolium reflexum, Trifolium alpinum, Medicago, Medicago arborea, marsh trefoil, clover, white clover, shamrock, genus Trifolium, crimson clover, purple clover, prairie trefoil, Trifolium dubium



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