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Meanings of shamrock in English
Portuguese
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Creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage.
Clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock.
Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers.
Synonyms
Examples for "common wood sorrel"
Examples for "common wood sorrel"
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Just common wood -sorrel, said the other lady, in utter amaze.
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The capsules of Cyclamen and of Oxalis acetosella are only occasionally buried, and this only beneath dead leaves or moss.
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The peduncles of Oxalis acetosella likewise bend downwards, and afterwards, when the pods are nearly mature, upwards; and this is effected by a circumnutating movement.
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Oxalis acetosella.-Thepeduncles are furnished with a joint in
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Oxalis acetosella: A, leaf seen from vertically above; B, diagram of leaf asleep, also seen from vertically above.
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Oxalis acetosella: circumnutation of leaflet when asleep; traced on vertical glass during 3 h. 40 m.
Usage of shamrock in English
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It could never happen on aircraft sporting the £8 million italicised shamrock!
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The embroidered shamrock stickers have been raising money for almost 20 years.
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Supermarket shoppers in Britain can now enjoy a limited edition shamrock-flavoured variety.
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Every one who wants to do the correct thing wears shamrock today.
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When you arrive in Montserrat they stamp your passport with a shamrock.
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It normally has a clump or small shamrock-like heads and two-inch roots.
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The word shamrock comes from seamróg, the Irish name young clover.
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Also introduced the brogue and the shamrock into the Emerald Isle.
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So expect much shamrock-shaped love and many fine baroque pop songs.
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Like all true shamrock, it was grown in the Emerald Isle.
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The emblem should be a shamrock held by the Red Hand of Ulster.
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The logo could be a shamrock with a red light in the centre.
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I looked closer: it was the faint outline of a shamrock.
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There was also the controversy over Brand Ireland and the shamrock.
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SO Bord Failte might be losing its shamrock; not necessarily a bad thing.
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Stone walls are surely as iconically Irish as the harp, shamrock or wolfhound.
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Shamrock through the time
Shamrock across language varieties
Ireland
Common