Word.ws English Dictionary

trifolies

trifolies is the plural of trifoly.

Meaning of trifoly

Noun

trifoly (countable and uncountable, plural trifolies)

  1. (obsolete) Melilot; sweet clover
    • She vvas crovvned vvith a Chaplet of Trifoly, to expreſſe readines, and openneſſe euery vvay; […]1604 March 25 (first performance; Gregorian calendar), B[en] Jon[son], “The Pegme at Fen-church”, in B. Jon: His Part of King James His Royall and Magnificent Entertainement through His Honorable...
  2. (obsolete) The plant trefoil.
    • Braid moonfern now with mystic trifoly / Because once more Goito gets, once more, / Sordello to itself!1840 March, Robert Browning, “Book the Third”, in Sordello, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 87

Questions about trifolies

What is trifolies the plural of?
Trifolies is the plural of trifoly.

Words near trifolies in the dictionary

  1. trifoliate orange
  2. trifoliate oranges
  3. trifoliated
  4. trifoliately
  5. trifoliates
  6. trifolies
  7. trifolin
  8. trifoliolate
  9. trifoliolately
  10. trifoliolates
  11. trifolirhizin

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: trifolies (page history and authors); trifoly (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “trifolies.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/trifolies. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.