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marsh trefoil

DEFINITIONS OF: marsh trefoil

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n 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

Synonyms:
Menyanthes trifoliata, bog myrtle, bogbean, buckbean, water shamrock
Type of:
aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant
a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth
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