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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.
Group relationships: Genus Menyanthes, Menyanthes
Generic synonyms: Aquatic Plant, Hydrophyte, Hydrophytic Plant, Water Plant
Definition of Buckbean
1. a marsh plant [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Buckbean
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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