A shamrock is not a four-leaf clover, a common mistake recently made by President Trump's marketing team. However, he's not the first to fall into the trap. Obama's team made the same error five years ago, and even Guinness, an icon of Ireland, has been guilty of the mix up. So, if a shamrock is a clover, does that make four-leaf clovers a 'subset' of shamrocks? It depends. As a symbol, the shamrock was intended as a metaphor embodying the three entities of the Holy Trinity. As such, four-leaf clovers are certainly not shamrocks. However, the word shamrock comes from Old Irish 'semroc', meaning simply 'little clover'. Because of this, one could argue the number of leaves is irrelevant, and that four-leaf clovers are indeed shamrocks. It's all a bit confusing, but a possible resolution could be that a four-leaf clover is a shamrock, but not the Shamrock.
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