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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


Synonymsbog myrtle, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock


Broader (hypernym)aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant


Member meronymgenus Menyanthes, Menyanthes









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