marsh trefoil

Questions about marsh trefoil

What does marsh trefoil mean?

marsh trefoil 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 marsh trefoil?

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

marsh trefoil 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.