ˈfour-leaved, a.
[f. four + leaf + -ed2.]
Having four leaves.
| 1793 Martyn Lang. Bot., Four-leaved tendril. 1839 S. Lover Four-leaved Shamrock 1 I'll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells. 1847 Longfellow Ev. i. iii. 19 The marvellous powers of four-leaved clover. |
b. four-leaved grass: † (a) a four-leaved variety of Trifolium repens; (b) the plant Paris quadrifolia.
| c 1450 Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.) 152/1 Quadrafolium, fowr⁓leuedgras. 1597 Gerarde Herbal 1029 The other is called Lotus quadrifolia, or fower leafed Grasse, or purple Woort. 1640 Parkinson Theat. Bot. 1112 Quadrifolium fuscum. Fower leafed or purple grass. 1863 Prior Plant-n. 86 Four leaved grass..the Herb Trulove, Paris quadrifolia. |