menyanthes trifoliata

Questions about menyanthes trifoliata

What does menyanthes trifoliata mean?

menyanthes trifoliata 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 menyanthes trifoliata?

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

menyanthes trifoliata 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.