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trefoil
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tre·foil
/ ˈtrēˌfoil; ˈtrefˌoil/
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n.
a small plant (genera Trifolium and Lotus) of the pea family with yellow flowers and three-lobed cloverlike leaves.
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a similar or related plant with three-lobed leaves.
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an ornamental design of three rounded lobes like a clover leaf, used typically in architectural tracery.
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a thing having three parts; a set of three:
a trefoil of parachutes.
∎ [as adj.]
denoting something shaped in the form of a trefoil leaf:
trefoil windows.
DERIVATIVES:
tre·foiled adj.
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Trefoil SEC filing proposes L.A. Gear management changes. (Trefoil Capital Investors L.P.; Securities and Exchange Commission)
Magazine article from: Footwear News; 8/5/1991; ; 700+ words
; Trefoil SEC filing proposes L.A. Gear management changes WASHINGTON (FNS) - Trefoil Capital Investors L.P., which plans to acquire...default. The bank agreement, a key condition to Trefoil's proposed investment, will last until Sept...
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Trefoil Capital increases stake in L.A. Gear. (Trefoil Capital Investors LP; L.A. Gear Inc.)
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal; 1/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; ...restructuring in which Burbank-based Trefoil Capital Investors LP will increase its...company's outstanding common stock. Trefoil Capital Investors is the investor group...executive of L.A. Gear. In 1990, Trefoil was set up by Gold and Disney scion Roy...
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Trefoil Capital Investors and CNC Holding announce definitive agreement for Child World acquisition by Trefoil.
PR Newswire; 8/27/1990; 700+ words
; TREFOIL CAPITAL INVESTORS AND CNC HOLDING ANNOUNCE DEFINITIVE AGREEMENT FOR CHILD WORLD ACQUISITION BY TREFOIL BURBANK, Calif., Aug. 27 /PRNewswire/ -- Trefoil Capital Investors L.P. and CNC Holding Corporation...
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Trefoil ups clout in L.A. Gear. (Trefoil Capital Investors L.P. increases number of investor group's directors on corporate board)
Magazine article from: Footwear News; 9/7/1992; ; 700+ words
; WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Trefoil Capitol Investors, L.P., which...far stopped short of taking it over. Trefoil last week named Clifford A. Miller...seven seats on a 13-member board. Trefoil received the right to obtain a majority...
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Trefoil may run board of L.A. Gear. (Trefoil Capital Investors L.P.)
Magazine article from: Footwear News; 8/24/1992; ; 700+ words
; WASHINGTON (FNS) -- Trefoil Capitol Investors, L.P., which...Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Trefoil said it should be able to obtain a majority...third quarterly payment of dividends to Trefoil. A 1991 agreement between L.A. Gear...
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Divergent Selection for Resistance to Fusarium Root Rot in Birdsfoot Trefoil.
Magazine article from: Crop Science; 5/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; BIRDSFOOT TREFOIL is a nonbloating pasture legume, adapted...diverse ecological regions. Birdsfoot trefoil is an important forage legume in Uruguay...major constraint to the use of birdsfoot trefoil is its lack of persistence. In Uruguay...
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New variety of birdsfoot trefoil resists fusarium wilt.
Newspaper article from: Life Science Weekly; 3/24/2003; 700+ words
; ...researchers have developed a birdsfoot trefoil that fends off the devastating fungus...new legume variety, Pardee birdsfoot trefoil, will be available this growing season...and horses. The seed pods on the Pardee trefoil are shaped like a bird's foot, hence...
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New Trefoils Give Breeders More Options.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...lines of narrowleaf and big trefoil plants from the Agricultural...for livestock and wildlife. Trefoil species provide excellent nutrition...or flooded soils. Because trefoils are legumes, they fix nitrogen...The popularity of birdsfoot trefoil, a related species, has grown...
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Trefoil to acquire Child World, nation's second-largest retail toy store chain, from CNC Holding. (Trefoil Capital Investors L.P.)
PR Newswire; 7/30/1990; 700+ words
; TREFOIL TO ACQUIRE CHILD WORLD, NATION'S SECOND...Calif., July 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Trefoil Capital Investors L.P. the $450 million...preliminary agreement on the acquisition by Trefoil of all of CNC Holding's 82 percent equity...
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Birdsfoot Trefoil Seed Production: I. Crop-Water Requirements and Response to Irrigation.
Magazine article from: Crop Science; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; Birdsfoot trefoil is a perennial forage legume used for hay...effects of soil-water availability on birdsfoot trefoil seed production are not known. Most research regarding birdsfoot trefoil seed production comes from studies done in the...
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trefoil
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
trefoil [O.Fr.,=three-leaf...trifoliate leaves. Best known of the trefoils is clover. The bird's-foot trefoil ( Lotus corniculatus ) is an Old...in North America; the prairie trefoil ( L. americanus ) is a related...
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arch
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
...Moorish , and Islamic styles. Foil arches can have trefoils , cinquefoils , or multifoils within a pointed arch...themselves be in the form of foils , such as the pointed trefoil or round trefoil arch;foliated arch: see foil arch;four-centred...
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Red Clover
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
...in calcium, potassium , and phosphorus . The common names for this sweet herb include wild clover, meadow trefoil, bee bread, trefoil, cow grass, purple clover, and three-leafed grass. Red clover grows to about 2 ft (61 cm) high from...
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club
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
...of the four suits, marked with the conventional reprentation of a trefoil leaf in black; club here is a translation of the Spanish name basto...taken from the French, where the name is trèfle ‘trefoil’.
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Defenses, Chemical
Book article from: Plant Sciences
...Probably all plants can produce cyanogenic compounds, but they are most common in legumes (for example, bird's-foot trefoil) and the fruits of plants in the rose/apple family (Rosaceae); they have the odor of almonds. Terpenoids. Terpenoids...
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