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buckbean
CIDE DICTIONARY
buckbean,
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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
buckbean, n. a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pinkish hairy flowers. Also called bog-bean.
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