noun
a small European plant of the pea family with yellow flowers and three-lobed cloverlike leaves
• Genera Trifolium and Lotus, family Leguminosae: several species, in particular the bird's-foot trefoil
• a similar or related plant with three-lobed leaves
• an ornamental design of three rounded lobes like a clover leaf, used typically in architectural tracery
• a thing having three parts; a set of three
