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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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of trifolium

C17: from Latin, from tri- + folium leaf

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

From Time Magazine Archive

One sometimes sees on a hillside a ploughed field of red earth which at a distance might easily be taken for a field of blossoming trifolium.

From Afoot in England by W. H. (William Henry) Hudson

Meantime the trifolium appeared like blood spilt among the grass.

From The Life of the Fields by Richard Jefferies

The luxuriant purple of trifolium, acres of rich colour, glowed in the sunlight.

From Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies

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 Henry Rowe Schoolcraft

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