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ˈthree-leaved, a.|-liːvd|
Also -leafed.
[See leaved and leafed.]
Having three leaves, or leaves consisting each of three leaflets; trifoliate. three-leaved grass, an old name for clover; in quot. 1634 app. wood-sorrel (cf. prec. a); three-leaved ivy, an American name for the poison ivy (Rhus toxicodendron); three-leaved rush, Juncus trifidus.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 595/33 Melilotum, thre-leued-gras. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 41 Among so many thre⁓leued herbes as we haue. 1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 18 Such as haue the Scuruy,..eat three-leafed-grasse, fresh meate, or the like. 1772Forster in Phil. Trans. LXII. 55 The threeleaved Hellebore. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. V. 296 Three-leaved Rush... This rare species,..has crowded, erect, thread-like stems, from four to six inches high. 1884J. Tait Mind in Matter (1892) 329 Saint Patrick..employed the three-leaved clover to illustrate the Unity of Nature, and Plurality of Persons in the Deity. |
