buckbean meaning

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buckbean (noun): 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.

Definition of buckbean

  1. 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: water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata

    Type of: aquatic plant

Scrabble score: 18 (letter breakdown)

Word lists: words starting with BU · words ending in AN · 8-letter words

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