Crossword clues for buckbean
The Collaborative International Dictionary
buckbean \buckbean\, Buck bean \Buck" bean`\(b[=e]n`). (Bot.) A perennial plant ( Menyanthes trifoliata) of Europe and America which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white, reddish, or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil; -- called also bog bean. It often roots at the water margin and spreads across the surface.
Syn: water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata.
Wiktionary
alt. ''Menyanthes trifoliata'', a plant with racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine. n. ''Menyanthes trifoliata'', a plant with racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata]
Usage examples of "buckbean".
The leaves, which follow later on, are made often into cigars, or are smoked as British herbal tobacco, being mixed for this purpose with the dried leaves and flowers of the eye-bright, buckbean, betony, thyme, and lavender, to which some persons add rose leaves, and chamomile flowers.