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buck bean

–noun
a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers.
Also called bogbean, marsh trefoil.


Origin:
1570–80; earlier buckes bean, trans. of D boksboon
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