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    BUCKBEAN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 surfaceplay

    Synonyms:

    bog myrtle; bogbean; buckbean; marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; water shamrock

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("buckbean" is a kind of...):

    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)

    Holonyms ("buckbean" is a member of...):

    genus Menyanthes; Menyanthes (the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans)

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