bean trefoil

1. 1.

   shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed

   Synonymsstinking bean trefoilAnagyris foetida

   Broadershrub

   Part ofAnagyris

Questions about bean trefoil

What does bean trefoil mean?

bean trefoil means "shrub with trifoliate leaves and yellow flowers followed by backward curving seed pods; leaves foetid when crushed".

What is another word for bean trefoil?

Close synonyms include stinking bean trefoil, Anagyris foetida. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bean trefoil a common word?

bean trefoil is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.