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Trefoil

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Noun

1. medic, medick, trefoil

any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves

2. clover, trefoil

a plant of the genus Trifolium

3. trefoil

an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Trefoil

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noun
1. 
any of numerous leguminous plants of the temperate genus Trifolium, having leaves divided into three leaflets and dense heads of small white, yellow, red, or purple flowers
2. 
any of various related plants having leaves divided into three leaflets, such as bird's-foot trefoil
3. 
a leaf having three leaflets
4. architecture
an ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle

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Trefoil

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noun
1. 
a. 
any of a number of plants with leaves divided into three leaflets, as the clover, tick trefoil, and certain species of lotus
b. 
a flower or leaf with three lobes
2. 
any ornamental figure resembling a threefold leaf

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Trefoil

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n.
1. Any of various plants of the pea family, chiefly of the genera Trifolium and Lotus, having compound trifoliolate leaves.
2. An ornament, symbol, or architectural form having the appearance of a trifoliolate leaf.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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