shamrock

FREQ #29950

n. 天蓝, 三叶草

发音

UK /ˈʃæm.ɹɒk/
US /ˈʃæm.ɹɑk/
AU

词形变化

shamrocks 复数 shamrocks

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The trefoil leaf of any small clover, especially Trifolium repens, or such a leaf from a clover-like plant, commonly used as a symbol of Ireland.

    She wore a shamrock in honor of her Irish ancestry.

  2. 2.

    Any of several species of small clover-like plant species, with trefoil leaves, especially Trifolium repens.

    The fields were covered with shamrocks.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 4

cuckoo-bread Dutch clover hop clover white clover

上位词 5

clover sorrel trefoil oxalis wood sorrel

相关短语

wet the shamrock wets the shamrock wetting the shamrock wetted the shamrock

词源

From Irish seamróg, from Old Irish semróc, diminutive of semar, semair (“clover”), from Proto-Celtic *semarā, *semaris (compare Gaulish uisumaris (“clover”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *semh₁r-, *smeh₁r-. Related to Old Norse smári (“clover”) and possibly Georgian სამყურა (samq̇ura, “clover”).

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