Noun
- 1. water shamrock, buckbean, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata, aquatic plant, water plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant
- usage: 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
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