bog myrtle

Questions about bog myrtle

What does bog myrtle mean?

bog myrtle means "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".

What is another word for bog myrtle?

Close synonyms include water shamrock, buckbean, bogbean, marsh trefoil, Menyanthes trifoliata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bog myrtle a common word?

bog myrtle is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.