Definition of buckbeans Buckbeans
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What does buckbeans mean?
Part of speech
🔤- buckbeans, noun, plural of buckbean.
WordNet
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| buckbean - 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 | ||
| water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata | ||
| aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth | ||
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Wiktionary 
- buckbean (Noun)
Menyanthes trifoliata , a plant with racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter leaves, sometimes used in medicine.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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buckbean
buk′bēn, n. the marsh-trefoil, a plant common in bogs in Britain. [Corr. of Bogbean.]
Part of speech
🔤- buckbean, noun, singular of buckbeans.
