What is a shamrock?

three leaf clover

What is a shamrock?
its a wild plant from the clover family it grows wild about the vast green country side in ireland and its their national flower, to receive some is supposed to give you irish luck and find your pot of gold.
Reply:It is a 3 leaf clover, only when one finds a 4 leaf clover is it considered Lucky...........
Reply:Shamrock is the English form of the Irish word seamrog which literally translated means 'little clover' or 'young clover' (the Irish word is a compound formed from seamair (= clover) and og (= young or small). Shamrock was first clearly used as a plant name by the English herbalist, John Gerard, in 1596 when he wrote that meadow trefoils are called Shamrockes
Reply:A type of Oxalis or clover. St. Patrick used it to teach the people of Ireland about the Holy Trinity (Father, Son, %26amp; Holy Spirit), all three seperate, but all being one at the same time.
Reply:It's a variety of Oxalis that grows wild in Ireland.
Reply:The national emblem of Ireland is NOT the Shamrock, It is the HARP. The harp was banned by the Brits in Ireland because it was their music and banned them together. So to keep it from the Irish, the Brit's banned it's playing. It is used on the back of the Irish Euro and all Government papers. Because the Shamrock is green it is used by many as a symbol of Irish heritage. Even the National Airlines, Aer Lingus, uses the Shamrock on it's wings. But it is not the National Symbol.
Reply:Its a large stone pretending to be something it isn't.
Reply:It's a clover.
Reply:Clover. Three leaved variety
Reply:a four leave clover
Reply:–noun

any of several trifoliate plants, as the wood sorrel, Oxalis acetosella, or a small, pink-flowered clover, Trifolium repens minus, but esp. Trifolium procumbens, a small, yellow-flowered clover: the national emblem of Ireland.



Any of several plants, such as a clover or wood sorrel, having compound leaves with three small leaflets, considered the national emblem of Ireland.



1. creeping European clover having white to pink flowers and bright green leaves; naturalized in United States; widely grown for forage [syn: white clover]

2. Eurasian plant with heart-shaped trifoliate leaves and white purple-veined flowers [syn: common wood sorrel]

3. clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock [syn: hop clover]
Reply:The tree leaves of the shamrock are supposed to symbolize The Father, The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
Reply:A trefoil plant from Ireland



The diminutive version of the Irish word for "clover" ("seamair") is "seamaróg", which was anglicised as "shamrock



I have some in a pot that i grew from a small sprig from last St Patrick's Day. They have small white flowers.
Reply:A sacred herb in the Irish country side
Reply:a type of clover
Reply:a shamrock is the national symbol of Ireland.



is just another name of FOUR LEAVE CLOVER!



hope this helps
Reply:it' a clover !