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.
- synonyms: water shamrock, buckbean, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata
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