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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 tre·foil /ˈtriˌfɔɪl, ˈtrɛ-/
 車軸草,三葉形

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Tre·foil n.
 1. Bot. Any plant of the genus Trifolium, which includes the white clover, red clover, etc.; -- less properly, applied also to the nonesuch, or black medic. See Clover, and Medic.
 2. Arch. An ornamental foliation consisting of three divisions, or foils.
 3. Her. A charge representing the clover leaf.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 trefoil
      n 1: any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having
           small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves [syn: medic,
            medick]
      2: a plant of the genus Trifolium [syn: clover]
      3: an architectural ornament in the form of three arcs arranged
         in a circle