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

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Example Sentences

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trifolium

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Richard Jefferies

Red heads of trifolium dot the ground; the vetches have long since been out, and are so still; along the hedges parsley forms a white fringe.

From The Toilers of the Field by Richard Jefferies

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

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 Richard Jefferies

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