BUCKBEAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does buckbean mean? 

• BUCKBEAN (noun)
  The noun BUCKBEAN has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: BUCKBEAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUCKBEAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bog myrtle; bogbean; buckbean; marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; water shamrock

Hypernyms ("buckbean" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Holonyms ("buckbean" is a member of...):

genus Menyanthes; Menyanthes (the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans)