Difference between Trefoil and Clover

What is the difference between Trefoil and Clover?

Trefoil as a noun is any of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus trifolium. while Clover as a noun is a plant of the genus trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.

Trefoil

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any of several plants of the pea family, having compound, trifoliate leaves; especially one of the genus Trifolium. A symbol having the shape of such leaves, especially when used as an architectural ornament.

Clover

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.

Example sentence: To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do, If bees are few.

We hope you now know whether to use Trefoil or Clover in your sentence.

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