buck·bean (b k b n )n. A perennial herb (Menyanthes trifoliata) native to the Northern Hemisphere and having trifoliate leaves and clusters of white, pink, or purplish flowers. [Translation of Flemish bocks boonen, goat's beans : bocks, genitive of bock, goat + boonen, pl. of boon, bean.] |
buckbean [ˈbʌkˌbiːn]
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae Also called bogbean
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| Noun | 1. |  buckbean - 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 surfacegenus Menyanthes, Menyanthes - the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth |
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