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Buckbean

noun
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.  Synonyms: bog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock.



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"Buckbean" Quotes from Famous Books



... stems of some kinds are very rough, and if you draw them quickly through your hand you may cut it rather sorely. "Oh! do come here, papa," said May; "here is quite a new flower to me; is it not a beauty?" Indeed, it is a lovely plant; it is the buckbean or marshtrefoil, and generally grows in some boggy spot, such as this. Look at the three green leaflets, like those of the common bean—hence one of the names of the plant. Look again at the clusters of blossoms; some are not fully out, ...
— Country Walks of a Naturalist with His Children • W. Houghton



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