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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.

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  1. n. 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. n. An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
  3. n. A charge representing the clover leaf.
  4. n. any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves
  5. n. a plant of the genus Trifolium
  6. n. an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle
  7. 1. (Bot.) 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.) An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils. 3. (Her.) A charge representing the clover leaf.
  8. Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the whiteclover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to thenonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.
  9. n:100 n. an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged in a circle