| marsh trefoil 
 
 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, Menyanthes trifoliata
 • Hypernyms:
 aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant
 • Member Holonyms:
 Menyanthes, genus Menyanthes
 
 
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