shamrock
sham rok
- n creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage
- n Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers
- n clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock
- After briefly questioning the women, authorities let them go in time to make their appointments the next two days in Washington--which included a meeting over coffee and shamrock .
- Fattening the image, creamy-cheeked stewardesses in heather-flecked tweeds or linens welcome passengers aboard "shamrock flights.
- Finucane's Spitfire has a thorned shamrock painted outside the cockpit and the letter "W" (for his first Spitfire, "Wheezy Anna") near the shamrock.