Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun a perennial plant of Europe and America (
Menyanthes trifoliata ) having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rooting at the water margin and spreading across the surface; -- called alsobog myrtle ,water shamrock andmarsh trefoil .
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- noun
buckbean
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- noun 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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Examples
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Other typical wetland plants include various sedges, like bottle sedge Carex rostrata, white sedge C. canescens, common bog-sedge C. limosa, tall bog-sedge C. magellanica, marsh cinquefoil Potentilla palustris, common cotton-grass Eriophorum angustifolium, bogbean Menyanthes trifoliata, and cranberry Vaccinium oxycoccus.
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Through the throng of bearded sailors we strode and made our way to the kitchen of the Quay Inn. A place sacred to kenspeckle folk it was, and from its smoke-stained rafters hung many pieces of bacon and dried shallots, and there were also bunches of centaury, and camomile, and dandelion root, and bogbean, for the goodman's wife was cunning in medicines of the older-fashioned sort.
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Cunning old leech-wives treated the French lady with tonics, mugwort, and bogbean, and good wine enow, But, like David of old, she got no heat; and before
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Volunteers are being asked to look out for 99 species in an assigned grid square, including rare plants like bogbean, cowslip and cornflowers.
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Volunteers are being asked to look out for 99 species in an assigned grid square, including rare plants like bogbean, cowslip and cornflowers.
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Volunteers are being asked to look out for 99 species in an assigned grid square, including rare plants like bogbean, cowslip and cornflowers.
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Volunteers are being asked to look out for 99 species in an assigned grid square, including rare plants like bogbean, cowslip and cornflowers.
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Volunteers are being asked to look out for 99 species in an assigned grid square, including rare plants like bogbean, cowslip and cornflowers.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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Volunteers are being asked to look out for 99 species in an assigned grid square, including rare plants like bogbean, cowslip and cornflowers.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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