Definitions for trefoil

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trefoil tre·foil

Spelling: [tree-foil, tref-oil]

IPA: /ˈtri fɔɪl, ˈtrɛf ɔɪl/

Trefoil is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 220 anagrams from letters in trefoil (efilort).

Definitions for trefoil

noun

1. any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having usually digitate leaves of three leaflets and reddish, purple, yellow, or white flower heads, comprising the common clovers.
2. any of various similar plants.
3. Architecture. an ornament composed of three lobes, divided by cusps, radiating from a common center.
4. such an ornamental figure used by the Girl Scouts as its official emblem.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or shaped like a trefoil.

Origin of trefoil

1350-1400; Middle English Anglo-French trifoil Latin trifolium triple leaf, the three-leaved plant, clover, equivalent to tri- tri- + folium leaf

Examples for trefoil

Small windows have heads shaped in the ogee or trefoil forms.

This trefoil outline is all boarded, divided into panels, and painted.

It feeds on Bird's-foot trefoil and other leguminous plants.

The tympanum of the large arch is pierced with a quatrefoil or trefoil.

For the figure cut in the rind was that of a shamrock—a trefoil with its stalk.

The trefoil was held sacred by the Greeks as well as other triad forms.

It had been well for Mr. Slope that Dr. trefoil had died in the autumn.

The trefoil ornament in the middle did not look the same as I recalled them.

Of cuckoo-flowers, “or Ladies smockes,” both the double and the trefoil.

It had the form of a trefoil clover-leaf with a circle in the centre.