| NOUN | plant | buckbean, water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata | perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves |
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| 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 | |
| Member of | Menyanthes, genus Menyanthes | The type genus of the Menyanthaceae |
| 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 |
| Spanish | bogbean, bog myrtle | |
| Catalan | bogbean, bog myrtle, Menyanthes trifoliata | |
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