buck bean

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buck bean - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]