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buckbean

/ ˈbʌkˌbiːn /

noun

  1. a marsh plant, Menyanthes trifoliata , with white or pink flowers: family Menyanthaceae Also calledbogbean
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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

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.

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