water shamrock

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   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

   Synonymsbuckbeanbogbeanbog myrtlemarsh trefoilMenyanthes trifoliata

   Broaderaquatic plant

   Part ofMenyanthes

Questions about water shamrock

What does water shamrock mean?

water shamrock 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 water shamrock?

Close synonyms include buckbean, 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 water shamrock a common word?

water shamrock 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.