shamrock
Plural: shamrocks
Noun
- A three-leaved clover, a symbol of Ireland.
- creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage
- Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
- clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock
- 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.
- Any of several species of small clover-like plant species, with trefoil leaves, especially Trifolium repens.
Examples
- Finding SHAMROCK on her rack felt lucky, even if it didn’t land on a triple word score.
- She wore a shamrock in honor of her Irish ancestry.
- The fields were covered with shamrocks.
Origin / Etymology
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”).
Synonyms
common wood sorrel, cuckoo bread, dutch clover, hop clover, lesser yellow trefoil, Oxalis acetosella, Trifolium dubium, Trifolium repens, white clover, clover, trefoil
Scrabble Score: 19
shamrock: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordshamrock: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
shamrock: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary