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MARSH TREFOIL

• MARSH TREFOIL (noun)
The noun MARSH TREFOIL has 1 sense:

1. 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

Familiarity information: MARSH TREFOIL used as a noun is very rare.

• MARSH TREFOIL (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bog myrtle; bogbean; buckbean; marsh trefoil; Menyanthes trifoliata; water shamrock

Hypernyms ("marsh trefoil" is a kind of...):

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

Holonyms ("marsh trefoil" is a member of...):

genus Menyanthes; Menyanthes (the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans)

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