| 单词 | buckbean |
| 释义 | buckbean (once / 454589 pages) n WORD FAMILY buckbean: buckbeans USAGE EXAMPLESThe lake was layered with sweet flag, sedge, lilies, horehound, bulrush and buckbean. New York Times(Oct 21, 2016) The name Buckbean is perhaps a corruption of scorbutus, scurvy; this giving it another title, "scurvy bean." Fernie, William Thomas, Herbal Simples Approved for Modern...(2010) At this season, too, we seek another semi-aquatic rarity, whose homely name cannot deprive it of a certain garden-like elegance, the Buckbean. Various, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No...(2010) n 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 surface Syn|Hyper Menyanthes trifoliata, bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, water shamrock aquatic 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 |
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