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Shamrock   /ʃˈæmrˌɑk/   Listen
Shamrock

noun
1.
Creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage.  Synonyms: dutch clover, Trifolium repens, white clover.
2.
Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers.  Synonyms: common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, Oxalis acetosella.
3.
Clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock.  Synonyms: hop clover, lesser yellow trefoil, Trifolium dubium.



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"Shamrock" Quotes from Famous Books



... who sings to preside at the Shamrock booth and sing Irish songs as Nora O'Malley did," planned Grace. "We can't have the Mystery Auction, because we don't care to ask the girls for packages, and we can't have the Italian booth, either, it would be too hard to arrange, but we can have a gypsy camp and a Japanese booth and an ...
— Grace Harlowe's Third Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... women, and the popping of corks. A little troop of waiters had just wheeled into the room two magnificent models of yachts hewn out of blocks of solid ice and crowned with flowers. On the one were the Stars and Stripes, on the other the Shamrock and Thistle. There was much clapping of hands and cheering. Lady Carey, who was sitting at the next table with her back to them, joined in the applause so heartily that a tiny gold pencil attached to her bracelet became detached and rolled unobserved to Mr. Sabin's side. ...
— The Yellow Crayon • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... to perch in the flowers and under the shamrock that grew in Muriel's door yard, waiting and hoping to catch the little ...
— The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas • Janet Aldridge

... morning, June the 3rd, I embarked on board the schooner "Shamrock," on my way to Darlington. We passed the Duck islands towards evening, and found ourselves fairly launched on the bosom of the Great Ontario. We anchored next day opposite the town of Cobourg, then a small village, without a harbour, now a fine, handsome, well-built town, containing ...
— Twenty-Seven Years in Canada West - The Experience of an Early Settler (Volume I) • Samuel Strickland

... distant land, beyond the sea, there dwelt an Orange Lily. Separated from it by a very absurd and useless ditch, a Green Shamrock spread its trefoil leafage to the sun, and grew greener every day. Now, in course of time, a very ill feeling sprang up between the Lily and the Shamrock, on account of color, the former despising the latter because it was green, and the latter hating the former because it was orange—as if ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 18, July 30, 1870 • Various


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