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trifolium

trifolium noun: any of the genus Trifolium of clovers and trefoils.

trifolium: any of the genus Trifolium of clovers and trefoils
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Noun

trifolium (plural trifoliums or trifolia)

  1. Any of the genus Trifolium of clovers and trefoils.
    • The larger species (Panax quinquefolium) is rather coarse and ordinary in its appearance; the flowers are very nearly like those of the trifolia, but grow in an irregular and elongated cluster.1867, Wilson Flagg, “The Early Wild Flowers”, in The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries, page 155
    • The majority of the trifoliums are native to Europe and Asia. Only comparatively few of the trifoliums native to the United States are of food production significance.2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 441

Forms of trifolium

pluraltrifoliums
pluraltrifolia

Origin of trifolium

Borrowed from translingual Trifolium, from Latin trifolium.

Questions about trifolium

What does trifolium mean?
Trifolium means any of the genus Trifolium of clovers and trefoils.
What part of speech is trifolium?
Trifolium is a noun.
What is the plural of trifolium?
The plural of trifolium is trifoliums.

Words near trifolium in the dictionary

  1. trifoliolate
  2. trifoliolately
  3. trifoliolates
  4. trifolirhizin
  5. trifolitoxin
  6. trifolium
  7. trifoliums
  8. trifollicular
  9. trifoly
  10. triforce
  11. triforced

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