Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various plants of the pea family, chiefly of the genera Trifolium and Lotus, having compound trifoliolate leaves.
- noun An ornament, symbol, or architectural form having the appearance of a trifoliolate leaf.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun 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. - noun A plant of the genus Trifolium; clover.
- noun The third leaf put forth by a young plant.
- noun 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.
- noun In heraldry, a bearing supposed to represent a clover-leaf.
- noun 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) 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 , andmedic . - noun (Arch.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
- noun (Her.) A charge representing the clover leaf.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of several
plants of thepea family, havingcompound ,trifoliate leaves; especially one of thegenus Trifolium . - noun A
symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as anarchitectural ornament .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
- noun a plant of the genus Trifolium
- noun an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It is sometimes designated by the term trefoil, three leaved.
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* Hmmm. Sweet trefoil is purportedly yet another name for this close fenugreek relation.
Toast: Lindy 2006
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* Hmmm. Sweet trefoil is purportedly yet another name for this close fenugreek relation.
Strange Doings on the Porch Lindy 2006
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Friedman combined these by twisting wire to form the simplest knot there is - an overhand knot mathematicians call a trefoil - and then dipping it into soapy water.
Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews 2009
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(1290-1298), it consists of a lofty central arch with smaller openings on the sides; above the arches are enriched gables with pinnacles and finials; over the centre arch in a trefoil is a figure of the Saviour; the restoration of the north side of this monument will afford some idea of its original appearance; the effect has been somewhat subdued by the softened light from the east window.
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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Adidas is cracking down on underground designers who replace the company's "trefoil" logo with a pot leaf.
Adverts Subverted 2008
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* Bersîm is a kind of trefoil, the _Trifolium Alexandrinum_ of LINNÆUS.
History Of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 1 (of 12) M. L. McClure 1881
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Because neither of he kits were sponsored my Puma, He also re-designed the Puma logo on the shirt to look like the ones on the original shirts, therefore the Ennerre logo is given a Puma make-over, this is also goes for the Adidas logo which was on the Boca shirt, using the trefoil idea i reworked it creating a similar logo for Puma.
Archive 2009-03-01 Azmie aka switch image 2009
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Because neither of he kits were sponsored my Puma, He also re-designed the Puma logo on the shirt to look like the ones on the original shirts, therefore the Ennerre logo is given a Puma make-over, this is also goes for the Adidas logo which was on the Boca shirt, using the trefoil idea i reworked it creating a similar logo for Puma.
Week 3 Puma kit templates vote Azmie aka switch image 2009
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Most intriguing was a black incense burner, depicting a man wearing a distinctive headdress, marked by a trefoil shape on its forehead like the tassel of a jester's cap.
chained_bear commented on the word trefoil
In heraldry, a bearing conventionally representing a clover-leaf with its stalk; resembling a small cross with rounded leaves or lobes in place of the three upper arms.
February 6, 2007
sionnach commented on the word trefoil
trefoil
November 3, 2007
treeseed commented on the word trefoil
See clubs
January 27, 2008
alissa commented on the word trefoil
a delicious sugar cookie with trifoliate form sold by the girl scouts
February 26, 2013