Noun: trefoil
| Singular | trefoil |
| Plural | trefoils |
Sample Sentences
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"The pristine, unbroken condition of the vessel – sometimes called a trefoil jug – caused the entire dig to 'come to a halt,' Søvsø remarked." [2015 June 16, David DeMar, “Ancient Pitcher Discovered in Historic Danish City”, in New Historian:]
Nouns inflected like trefoil
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English trefoil, from Old French trifoil, trefeul, from Latin trifolium, from tri- (“three”) + folium (“leaf”). See: Middle English Nouns '
trefoil', Latin Nouns '
trifolium'.
Verbs referencing "trefoil"
Spanish Nouns
trébol.