trifolium

See also: Trifolium

English

Etymology

From the genus name.

Noun

trifolium (plural trifoliums or trifolia)

  1. (botany) Any of the genus Trifolium of clovers and trefoils.
    • 1867, Wilson Flagg, “The Early Wild Flowers”, in The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries, page 155:
      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.
    • 2012, Douglas M. Considine, Foods and Food Production Encyclopedia, page 441:
      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.

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From tria (three) + folium (a leaf), a calque of Ancient Greek τρίφυλλον (tríphullon).

Pronunciation

Noun

trifolium n (genitive trifoliī or trifolī); second declension

  1. trefoil, clover

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative trifolium trifolia
Genitive trifoliī
trifolī1
trifoliōrum
Dative trifoliō trifoliīs
Accusative trifolium trifolia
Ablative trifoliō trifoliīs
Vocative trifolium trifolia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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