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Definition: Buck bean
buckbean
\buckbean\, Buck bean
\Buck" bean`\(b[=e]n`). (Bot.)
A perennial plant (
Menyanthes trifoliata) of Europe and
America which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes
of white, reddish, or purplish flowers and intensely bitter
trifoliate leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil;
-- called also
bog bean. It often roots at the water margin
and spreads across the surface.
Syn: water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil,
Menyanthes trifoliata.
[1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]