buckbean

Other forms of buckbean

plural

buckbeans·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about buckbean

What does buckbean mean?

buckbean 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".

How many syllables are in buckbean?

buckbean has 3 syllables and divides as buck-be-an under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for buckbean?

Close synonyms include water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, 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 buckbean a common word?

buckbean is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.