Noun: buckbean 'búk,been
- 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
"Buckbean flowers create a beautiful display in wetland areas";
- water shamrock, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata
Derived forms: buckbeans
Type of: aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant
Part of: genus Menyanthes, Menyanthes
Encyclopedia: Buckbean