buckbean

buck·bean

B0526000 (bŭk′bēn′)n. A perennial herb (Menyanthes trifoliata) native to the Northern Hemisphere and having trifoliate leaves and clusters of white, pink, or purplish flowers.

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[Translation of Flemish bocks boonen, goat's beans : bocks, genitive of bock, goat + boonen, pl. of boon, bean.]

buckbean

(ˈbʌkˌbiːn) n (Plants) a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae. Also called: bogbean

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buckbean - perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at water margin and spreading across the surfacebog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrockgenus Menyanthes, Menyanthes - the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeansaquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth