buckbean

British

/ ˈbʌkˌbiːn /

noun

Also called: bogbean. a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata , with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae

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The lake was layered with sweet flag, sedge, lilies, horehound, bulrush and buckbean.

From New York Times • Oct. 21, 2016

Among them are the Scotch and spruce firs, Pinus sylvestris and Pinus abies, and the buckbean, or Menyanthes trifoliata, etc., besides the common birch and other European plants.

From The Antiquity of Man by Lyell, Charles, Sir

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