buck bean
noun
a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
Also called
bogbean,
marsh trefoil.
Origin of buck bean
1570–80; earlier
buckes bean, translation of Dutch
boksboon
Words nearby buck bean
buchner,
buchner funnel,
buchu,
buck,
buck and wing,
buck bean,
buck fever,
buck for,
buck moth,
buck passer,
buck rabbit
Example sentences 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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