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for Buckbean
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
buckbean \buckbean\, Buck bean \Buck" bean`\(b[=e]n`). (Bot.)
A perennial plant ({Menyanthes trifoliata) of Europe and
America which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes
of white, reddish, or purplish flowers and intensely bitter
trifoliate leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil;
-- called also bog bean. It often roots at the water margin
and spreads across the surface.
Syn: water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil,
Menyanthes trifoliata.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
buckbean
n 1: 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: water shamrock, buckbean, bogbean,
bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata]
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