Definition of Buckbean

1. 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.


Definition of Buckbean

1. a marsh plant [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Buckbean

buck fever
buck for
buck naked
buck off
buck private
buck rabbit
buck rarebit
buck the trend
buck tooth
buck up
buck wild
buckaroo
buckaroos
buckayro
buckayros
buckbean (current term)
buckbean family
buckbeans
buckboard
buckboards
buckbrush
buckbrushes
bucked
bucked for
bucked off
bucked shins
bucked up(p)
buckeen
buckeens
bucker

Literary usage of Buckbean

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Universal formulary: Containing the Methods of Preparing and Administering by Robert Eglesfeld Griffith (1866)
"buckbean. The M. trifoliata, or buckbean, is an aquatic herbaceous plant, ... In small dose», the buckbean is tonic and astringent, in large ones cathartic, ..."

2. The British flora medica: a history of the medicinal plants of Great Britain by Benjamin Herbert Barton, Thomas Castle (1877)
"The buckbean has no smell, but develops an intense bitterness, ... Linneus informs us that in some parts of Lapland, where t.he buckbean abounds, ..."

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