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[syn: water shamrock, buckbean, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
bogbean \bogbean\ n.
a perennial plant of Europe and America (Menyanthes
trifoliata) having racemes of white or purplish flowers and
intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at the
water margin and spreading across the surface; -- called also
bog myrtle, water shamrock and marsh trefoil.
Syn: water shamrock, buckbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil.
[WordNet 1.5]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
water shamrock
n 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 [syn: water shamrock, buckbean, bogbean,
bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata]