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Buckbean   Listen
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Buck bean, buckbean  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.
Synonyms: water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata.






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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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