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Definition of Sea trifoly
1. Noun. A small fleshy herb common along North American seashores and in brackish marshes having pink or white flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Glaux, Glaux
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sea Trifoly
Literary usage of Sea trifoly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"Called also sea trifoly. June-Aug. 1o. ANAGALLIS L. Sp. PL 148. 1753. Annual or
perennial, diffuse or erect, branching mostly glabrous herbs, with opposite ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"... south to Nebraska and Nevada; on the Pacific Coast from California to Alaska.
Also in Europe and Asia. Called also sea trifoly. June-Aug. io. ..."
3. Miscellanies by New Shakspere Society (London, England). (1876)
"ejU~ed tAi/ife"= sacred — the emblem of Scotland, ie, Carduus bene- dictus;
ibid., "sea trifoly"— can find none with epithet 'Sea'; 1. ..."
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