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

Meantime the trifolium appeared like blood spilt among the grass.

From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard

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

Sometimes in early June the bright trifolium, drooping with its weight of flower, brushes against the passer-by—acre after acre of purple.

From Nature Near London by Jefferies, Richard

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