Buckbean

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  buckbean \buckbean\, Buck bean \Buck" bean`\(b[=e]n`). (Bot.)
     A perennial plant ({Menyanthes trifoliata}) of Europe and
     America which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes
     of white, reddish, or purplish flowers and intensely bitter
     trifoliate leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil;
     -- called also {bog bean}. It often roots at the water margin


     and spreads across the surface.
  
     Syn: water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil,
          {Menyanthes trifoliata}.
          [1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  buckbean
       n : 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}, {bogbean}, {bog
           myrtle}, {marsh trefoil}, {Menyanthes trifoliata}]