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A trefoil (from Latin trifolium 'three-leaved plant') is a graphic form composed of the outline of three overlapping rings, used in architecture, Pagan and Christian symbolism, among other areas. The term is also applied to other symbols with a threefold shape.
Lotus corniculatus is a flowering plant in the pea family Fabaceae.Common names include common bird's-foot trefoil, [2] eggs and bacon, [3] birdsfoot deervetch, [4] and just bird's-foot trefoil [5] (a name also often applied to other Lotus spp.).
Other species are: Trifolium arvense, hare's-foot trefoil; found in fields and dry pastures, a soft hairy plant with minute white or pale pink flowers and feathery sepals; Trifolium fragiferum, strawberry clover, with globose, rose-purple heads and swollen calyxes; Trifolium campestre, hop trefoil, on dry pastures and roadsides, the heads of ...
In heraldic terminology, a quatrefoil is a representation of a four-leaf clover, a rare variant of the trefoil or three-leaf clover. It is sometimes shown "slipped", i.e. with an attached stalk. In archaic English it is called a caterfoil, [1] or variant spellings thereof.
Valknut variations. On the left unicursal trefoil forms; on the right tricursal linked triangle forms.. The valknut is a symbol consisting of three interlocked triangles.It appears on a variety of objects from the archeological record of the ancient Germanic peoples.
Lotus, a latinization of Greek lōtos (), [2] is a genus of flowering plants that includes most bird's-foot trefoils (also known as bacon-and-eggs) [3] and deervetches. [4] Depending on the taxonomic authority, roughly between 70 and 150 species are accepted, all legumes; American species formerly placed in the genus have been transferred to other genera.
Desmodium is a genus of plants in the legume family Fabaceae, sometimes called tick-trefoil, tick clover, hitch hikers or beggar lice. [2] There are dozens of species and the delimitation of the genus has shifted much over time.
A trefoil (three leaf) is a graphic form composed of three leaves or lobes. Trefoil may also refer to: Clover, or trefoil, common names for plants of the genus Trifolium; Trefoil Island, an island in Australia, part of Tasmania’s Trefoil Island Group; Trefoil, Alberta, a locality in Special Area No. 2, Alberta, Canada