English noun: buckbean | |||
1. | buckbean (plant) 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 | ||
Broader (hypernym) | aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant | ||
Member meronym | genus Menyanthes, Menyanthes | ||