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Webster 1913 Edition
Trefoil
Tre′foil
,Noun.
1.
(Bot.)
2.
(Arch.)
An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
3.
(Her.)
A charge representing the clover leaf.
Webster 1828 Edition
Trefoil
TRE'FOIL
,Noun.
The common name for many plants of the genus Trifolium; also, in agriculture, a name of the medicago tupulina, a plant resembling clover, with yellow flowers, much cultivated for hay and fodder.
Definition 2024
trefoil
trefoil
English
Trifolium repens
Architectural trefoil
Noun
trefoil (plural trefoils)
- Any of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus Trifolium.
- A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.
- New Historian, Ancient Pitcher Discovered in Historic Danish City, by David DeMar, 16 June 2015
- "The pristine, unbroken condition of the vessel – sometimes called a trefoil jug – caused the entire dig to 'come to a halt,' Søvsø remarked."
- New Historian, Ancient Pitcher Discovered in Historic Danish City, by David DeMar, 16 June 2015
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