WATER SHAMROCK
Dictionary entry overview: What does water shamrock mean? • WATER SHAMROCK (noun)
The noun WATER SHAMROCK 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: WATER SHAMROCK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WATER SHAMROCK (noun)
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 ("water shamrock" 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 ("water shamrock" is a member of...):
genus Menyanthes; Menyanthes (the type genus of the Menyanthaceae; one species: bogbeans)
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