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 shamrock ['ʃæmrɒk]   添加此单词到默认生词本
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    shamrock
    [ noun ]
    1. creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage

    2. <noun.plant>
    3. Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers

    4. <noun.plant>
    5. clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock

    6. <noun.plant>


    Shamrock \Sham"rock\, n. [L. seamrog, seamar, trefoil, white
    clover, white honeysuckle; akin to Gael. seamrag.] (Bot.)
    A trifoliate plant used as a national emblem by the Irish.
    The legend is that St. Patrick once plucked a leaf of it for
    use in illustrating the doctrine of the trinity.

    Note: The original plant was probably a kind of wood sorrel
    ({Oxalis Acetocella}); but now the name is given to the
    white clover ({Trifolium repens}), and the black medic
    ({Medicago lupulina}).

    1. The symbol of the seven-year joint venture begun last year is a shamrock on the face of the Kremlin clock.
    2. Nelson concludes the shamrock is merely a humble clover too often dressed up in "colorful legend and sentimental nonsense." The word shamrock derives from Seamrog, Irish for "little clover," he said.
    3. Nelson concludes the shamrock is merely a humble clover too often dressed up in "colorful legend and sentimental nonsense." The word shamrock derives from Seamrog, Irish for "little clover," he said.
    4. Today the shamrock emblem adorns everything from the national airline to bags of peat moss fertilizer.
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