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trifolium

British

/ traɪˈfəʊlɪəm /

noun

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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What’s more, by systematically excluding certain bee traits—like shorter tongues—and then tracking which plants got pollinated in a given area, they were able to link certain acoustic frequencies to the successful pollination of different flowering clovers, including Trifolium dasyphyllum and T. parryi.

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Flowers much as in Trifolium, but in spike-like racemes, small; corolla deciduous, free from the stamen-tube.

From Project Gutenberg

A species of clover with pinkish or white flowers; Trifolium hybridum.

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In the western counties of England, and generally by agriculturists, the name honeysuckle is applied to the meadow clover, Trifolium pratense.

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The Scilly Islands own certain plants peculiar to them; thus, Trifolium repens, var.

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