Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Producing three leaves.
- adjective Consisting of three distinct leaflets; having the leaflets arranged in threes.
- adjective See
Trillium .
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Examples
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The logo -- with a three-leafed sprig for green jobs, a set of gears for infrastructure, and "recovery. gov" beside a field of stars -- will be used to brand projects as well as raise the visibility of the White House's economic initiatives and try to dramatize their impact.
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For example, he's taken a four-leafed clover, removed one the leaves, making it a three-leafed clover.
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For example, he's taken a four-leafed clover, removed one the leaves, making it a three-leafed clover.
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Even the three-leafed shamrock literally “little clover” was already a pagan sacred symbol since three was a holy number for the Celts, too.
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Many legends have grown up about Patrick: that he drove snakes out of Ireland, for example, and that he used a three-leafed clover, the shamrock, to illustrate the Trinity.
Patrick, Saint 2002
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Her expression was matter-of-course, rather than pathetic, as she entered the pretty room where her daughter, half dressed, sat before a dressing-table and played with the reflections of a three-leafed mirror framed in blue enamel.
Alice Adams 1921
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The extremities of the two lines converged on an oval-topped doorway, very large, having above it a design conventionalised from the three-leafed clover.
The Blind Spot Austin Hall 1908
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"Who are you?" asked Watson, intent upon the great three-leafed clover.
The Blind Spot Austin Hall 1908
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Small; slender vine around the neck, dotted line around the shoulder, and three-leafed vine around the body.
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Large size; a double band of crescents around the neck; then on the shoulder an arched band with a central stripe of diamonds; below this a double line of inverted crescents, and below this a large three-leafed plant.
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