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Any leguminous plant having leaves divided into three leaflets
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trifolium
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redirect Clover Category:Trifolieae
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Trifolium \Tri*fo"li*um\, n. [L., clover.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous herbs with densely spiked flowers and usually trifoliate leaves; trefoil. There are many species, all of which are called clover. See Clover .
Usage examples of trifolium.
Hence it sleeps like the terminal leaflet of a mature plant, as was observed in 15 species, and wholly unlike the corresponding leaflet of Trifolium, which simply bends upwards.
Still more striking is the fact that, in the same genus, the leaves of several or of all the species may sleep, but the cotyledons of only some of them, as occurs with Trifolium, Lotus, Gossypium, and partially with Oxalis.
We shall however, give one good instance in the following section, in the case of Trifolium subterraneum, and probably in that of Arachis hypogaea.
It was a rapid-fire flow of Latin: Cynodon dactylon, Eleusine indica, Trifolium repens.
The number 89 might have been a little increased, for the cotyledons remained almost horizontal at night in some species in a few genera, for instance, Trifolium and Geranium, which are included amongst the sleepers, such genera might therefore have been added to the 89.