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buck-bean Herb.|ˈbʌkbiːn|
Also 6 buckes beanes.
[App. a transl. by Lyte of the Flemish bocks boonen ‘goat's beans’; cf. mod.Du. bocksboon, Ger. bocksbohne (1586 in Grimm). (Another name of the plant, of later appearance, is bog-bean, which may be a rationalizing alteration of buck-bean, unless, like bog nut, bog trefoil, it is quite independent in origin.)]
A water plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) common in bogs in Britain, and widely diffused over the northern hemisphere; it bears racemes of pinkish white flowers.
1578Lyte Dodoens iv. lxxviii. 542 Of Buckes Beanes—Marrishe Trefoyl..This herbe is called..in Brabant, Bocxboonen that is to say Bockes Beanes, bycause it is like the leaues of the common Beane. 1676Phil. Trans. XI. 743 Several men cured of the Gout by a decoction of Trifolium palustre (Marsh-trefoil or Buck-beans). 1755Gentl. Mag. 431 Two or three dishes of chocolate..or two dishes of buc⁓bean tea. 1794Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xvi. 176 Marsh Trefoil, Buckbean, or Bogbean. 1863Baring Gould Iceland 191 The broad leaves of the buckbean float on the red water. 1866Treas. Bot. 736 The beautiful Buckbean or Marsh Trefoil..a most desirable acquisition to ornamental ponds. |