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

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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

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

From Nature Near London by Jefferies, Richard

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 Jefferies, Richard

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

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