English-Thai Dictionary
trefoil
N พืช ไม้ ฝัก จำพวก Trefolium ที่ มี ใบ สาม แฉก
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
TREFOIL
n.[L. trifolium; tres, three, and folium, leaf. ] 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.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
TREFOIL
Tre "foil, n. Etym: [L. tres three + E. foil leaf; cf. F. frèfle, It. trifoglio, L. trifolium. See Tri-, Foil leaf, and cf. Trifoly. ]
1. (Bot. )
Defn: Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc. ; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.
2. (Arch. )
Defn: An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
3. (Her. )
Defn: A charge representing the clover leaf.
TREFOILED
TREFOILED Tre "foiled `, a. (Her. )
Defn: Same as Tréflé.
New American Oxford Dictionary
trefoil
tre foil |ˈtrēˌfoil, ˈtrefˌoil ˈtriˌfɔɪl ˈtrɛˌfɔɪl | ▶noun a small European plant of the pea family with yellow flowers and three-lobed cloverlike leaves. [Genera Trifolium and Lotus, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular the bird's-foot trefoil. ] • a similar or related plant with three-lobed leaves. • an ornamental design of three rounded lobes like a clover leaf, used typically in architectural tracery. • a thing having three parts; a set of three: a trefoil of parachutes lowers the shuttle's used rockets to Earth. • [ as modifier ] denoting something shaped in the form of a trefoil leaf: trefoil windows. DERIVATIVES tre foiled adjective ORIGIN Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French trifoil, from Latin trifolium, from tri- ‘three ’ + folium ‘leaf. ’
Oxford Dictionary
trefoil
trefoil |ˈtrɛfɔɪl, ˈtriːfɔɪl | ▶noun a small European plant of the pea family, with yellow flowers and three-lobed clover-like leaves. ●Genera Trifolium and Lotus, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular the bird's-foot trefoil. • a similar or related plant with three-lobed leaves. • an ornamental design of three rounded lobes like a clover leaf, used typically in architectural tracery. • a thing having three parts; a set of three: a trefoil of parachutes lowers the shuttle's used rockets to Earth. DERIVATIVES trefoiled adjective ORIGIN Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French trifoil, from Latin trifolium, from tri- ‘three ’ + folium ‘leaf ’.
Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary
trefoil
tre foil /tréfɔɪl, tríː -/名詞 C 1 〘植 〙シャジクソウ, クローバー .2 〘建 〙三つ葉飾り, 三つ葉形のもの .
The Wordsmith Dictionary