HyperDic: water_shamrock

English > 1 sense of the expression water shamrock:
NOUNplantwater shamrock, buckbean, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliataperennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves
English > water shamrock: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningperennial 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.
Synonymsbuckbean, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata
Member ofMenyanthes, genus MenyanthesThe type genus of the Menyanthaceae
Broaderaquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plantA 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
Spanishbogbean, bog myrtle
Catalanbogbean, bog myrtle, Menyanthes trifoliata

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