true lover's knot

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Lycophotia porphyrea
Paris quadrifolia
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Particularly: "mathematical knot?"

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true lover's knot (plural true lover's knots)

  1. Any of various knots (for string or the like) having some symmetry.
  2. Lines interwoven with many involutions, fancifully held as an emblem of interwoven affection.
  3. A particular species of moth (Lycophotia porphyrea).
  4. (mathematics) A particular knot of eight crossings.
  5. A small plant in the family Melanthiaceae (Paris quadrifolia).

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