buckbean
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, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata • Hypernyms: aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant • Member Holonyms: Menyanthes, genus Menyanthes
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