a. [f. FOUR + LEAF + -ED2.] Having four leaves.

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1793.  Martyn, Lang. Bot., Four-leaved tendril.

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1839.  Lover, Four-leaved Shamrock, 1.

        I’ll seek a four-leaved shamrock in all the fairy dells,
And if I find the charmèd leaves, oh, how I’ll weave my spells!

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1847.  Longf., Ev., I. iii. 19.

        And of the marvellous powers of four-leaved clover and horseshoes,
With whatsoever else was writ in the lore of the village.

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  b.  Four-leaved grass: † a. a four-leaved variety of Trifolium repens; b. the plant Paris quadrifolia.

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c. 1450.  Alphita (Anecd. Oxon.), 152/1. Quadrafolium, fowrleuedgras.

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1597.  Gerard, Herball, 1029. The other is called Lotus quadrifolia, or fower leafed Grasse, or purple Woort.

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1640.  Parkinson, Theat. Bot., 1112. Quadrifolium fuscum. Fower leafed or purple grass.

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1863.  Prior, Plant-n., 86. Four leaved grass, a plant with four leaves only, the Herb Trulove, Paris quadrifolia, L.

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