trifolium

British  

/ traɪˈfəʊlɪəm /

noun

1. any leguminous plant of the temperate genus Trifolium , having leaves divided into three leaflets and dense heads of small white, yellow, red, or purple flowers: includes the clovers and trefoils

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Etymology

Origin of trifolium

C17: from Latin, from _tri- + folium leaf

Example Sentences

This year, for the first time, oxalis raisers found their market seriously invaded by the genuine article, trifolium repens.

From Time Magazine Archive

I observed the Erythronium dens canis, and Panax trifolium appeared in flower on the 25th. 28th.

From Personal Memoirs of a Residence of Thirty Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers by Schoolcraft, Henry Rowe

Wherever a trifolium grows, there one is sure to see           "gallow-yellow butterflies,       Like blooms of lorn primroses blowing loose,         when autumn winds arise."

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

Behind the downs rise again, their slopes in spring a mass of colour—green corn, squares of bright yellow mustard, bright crimson trifolium, and brown fallows.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

Red trifolium is a favourite crop; it is not much redder than the land which bears it.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard