bogbean


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bogbean

(ˈbɒɡˌbiːn)
n
(Plants) another name for buckbean
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014
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Noun1.bogbean - perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leavesbogbean - 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
bog myrtle, buckbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, water shamrock
genus Menyanthes, Menyanthes - the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans
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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Plants found on the moor include bogbean, butterwort, limestone bedstraw, grass of Parnassus, and bog species such as cranberry, sphagnum mosses and round-leaved sundew.
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Above all I recall the smells and colours of a tapestry of herbs which I had never encountered before: marsh St John's-wort in a peaty ditch, marsh cinquefoil and bogbean in pools, and purple loosestrife and hemp agrimony in former peat cuttings, a sign to take care when stepping on what looked like solid ground.
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Menyanthes trifoliata ydi'r enw gwyddonol ar hwn a 'bogbean' yn Saesneg.
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