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buck bean

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noun

a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.

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Nearby words

  1. buchner,
  2. buchner funnel,
  3. buchu,
  4. buck,
  5. buck and wing,
  6. buck fever,
  7. buck for,
  8. buck moth,
  9. buck passer,
  10. buck rabbit

Origin of buck bean

1570–80; earlier buckes bean, translation of Dutch boksboon
Also called bogbean, marsh trefoil.
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for buck bean

  • In the next meadow they came upon beds of Menyanthes—an ugly name, and its common one of buck-bean is not much better.

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