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

Or I should row on up the great stream by meadows full of golden buttercups, past fields crimson with trifolium or green with young wheat.

From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard

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 Hudson, W. H. (William Henry)

I suppose the plant you mean is trifolium corniculatum, or bird's-foot trefoil.-J.

From The Natural History of Wiltshire by Aubrey, John

Near it hangs a trifolium of virgins, of very anaemic colour.

From The Galleries of the Exposition by Neuhaus, Eugen