English > buckbean: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | 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. |
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| Synonyms | water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata |
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| Member of | Menyanthes, genus Menyanthes | The type genus of the Menyanthaceae |
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| Broader | aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant | A plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus / lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth |
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| Spanish | bogbean, bog myrtle |
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| Catalan | bogbean, bog myrtle, Menyanthes trifoliata |
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