Adjacent Words

Buckbean definitions

	Tweet

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BUCK'BEAN, n. This is properly bogbean, which see.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1578 a perennial herbaceous plant (Menyanthes trifoliata of the family Menyanthaceae) growing in bogs and having racemes of white or pinkish flowers

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, with white or pinkish hairy flowers. Also called bog-bean.