Word Meanings - TRIFOLIATED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having three leaves or leaflets, as clover. See Illust. of Shamrock.

• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Illustrous
  Without luster.
• Threepenny
  Costing or worth three pence; hence, worth but little; poor; mean.
• THREEFLOWERED
  Bearing three flowers together, or only three flowers.
• THREEWAY
  Connected with, or serving to connect, three channels or pipes; as, a three-way cock or valve.
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Three-pile
  An old name for the finest and most costly kind of velvet, having a fine, thick pile.
• THREEHANDED
  Said of games or contests where three persons play against each other, or two against one; as, a three-handed game of cards.
• Shamrock
  A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish. The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.
• Three-piled
  Having the quality of three-pile; best; most costly.
• THREELOBED
  Having three lobes. Three-lobed leaf (Bot.), a leaf divided into three parts, the sinuses extending not more than half way to the middle, and either the parts of the sinuses being rounded.
• Clovered
  Covered with growing clover.
• Three-ply
  Consisting of three distinct webs inwrought together in weaving, as cloth or carpeting; having three strands; threefold.
• THREEMILE
  Of or pertaining to three miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt (the three-mile belt or zone) of three miles included in territorial waters (which see) of a state.

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