What is the difference between shamrock and clover?
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The trefoil leaf of any small clover, especially Trifolium repens , or such a leaf from a clover-like plant.
Any of several small plants, forms of clover, with trefoil leaves, especially Trifolium repens .
(botany) A plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.
Clover is a hyponym of shamrock.
Clover is a synonym of shamrock.
As nouns the difference between shamrock and clover
is that shamrock is the trefoil leaf of any small clover, especially Trifolium repens, or such a leaf from a clover-like plant while clover is a plant of the genus Trifolium with leaves usually divided into three (rarely four) leaflets and with white or red flowers.As a proper noun Clover is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- She wore a shamrock in honor of her Irish ancestry.
- The fields were covered with shamrocks .