Definition of Trefoils. Meaning of Trefoils. Synonyms of Trefoils

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Definition of Trefoils

Trefoil
Trefoil Tre"foil, n. [L. tres three + E. foil leaf; cf. F. fr[`e]fle, It. trifoglio, L. trifolium. See Tri-, Foil leaf, and cf. Trifoly.] 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.

Meaning of Trefoils from wikipedia

- and differs from the heraldic trefoil in being not slipped. Trefoil in heraldry Or a fess sable between three trefoils vert Gules a cross flory argent...
- Alberta, Canada Trefoil knot, the simplest example of a nontrivial knot Trefoil, a variation of the card game La Belle Lucie Trefoils, a variety of Girl...
- right-handed trefoil, or vice versa. (That is, the two trefoils are not ambient isotopic.) Though chiral, the trefoil knot is also invertible, meaning that there...
- Slender trefoil is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Lotus tenuis, native to western and southern Europe and southwest Asia Trifolium...
- USS Trefoil has been the name of two ships of the United States Navy. USS Trefoil (1865), a wooden-hulled **** steamboat purchased by the Navy and used...
- A trefoil arch, or three-foiled cusped arch (occasionally trilobite arch, no connection to an actual trilobite), is an arch incorporating the shape or...
- Trefoil Island (in palawa kani : Titima), officially known as titima / Trefoil Island, is an island with an area of 115.79 ha, in south-eastern Australia...
- In molecular biology the β trefoil fold is a protein fold that consists of six beta hairpins, each formed by two beta strands. Together these form a beta...
- produced by Desmodium. A blue dye is obtained from Desmodium incanum. Tick-trefoils in agriculture can also be used as living mulch and as green manure, as...
- Common names include common bird's-foot trefoil, eggs and bacon, birdsfoot deervetch, and just bird's-foot trefoil (a name also often applied to other Lotus...