English > genus Menyanthes: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | The type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans. |
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| Synonym | Menyanthes |
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| Member of | Menyanthaceae, family Menyanthaceae, buckbean family | A dicotyledonous family of marsh plants of order Gentianales |
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| Members | water shamrock, buckbean, 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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| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | genus menyanthes, menyanthes, Menyanthes |
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| Catalan | genus menyanthes, menyanthes |
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