TREFOIL

(Lit. tres, three, and folia, leaves.) In Architecture, an ornament of three cusps in a circle; reiembling three-leaved clover. Trefoil. A name given in English to different kinds of three-leaved plants. White trefoil is Trifolium repens; yellow trefoil is Trifolium minus; black trefoil is Medicago lupulin a; bird's-foot trefoil, Lotus corniculatus. All such plants are used for the food of cattle. The French word trefte has a similar application. TKEMA NDO, Tremolo. (It. trembling.) In Music, a direction for one of the graces of harmony, which consists in a reiteration of one note of the chord: this, however, applies more directly to the word tremolo, while the tremando is a general shake of the whole chord. TEEM ATODES, Trematoda. (Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) The name of an order of Sterelminthans, or Parenchymatous Entoza, comprising those which have organs of imbibition and adhesion in the form of suckers. [s. 1279]