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BOGBEAN
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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 surface
Synonyms:
bog myrtle; bogbean; buckbean; marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; water shamrock
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bogbean" 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 ("bogbean" is a member of...):
genus Menyanthes; Menyanthes (the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans)
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