| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| buckbean |
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| SYLLABICATION: | buck·bean |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  b k b n |
| NOUN: | A perennial herb (Menyanthes trifoliata) native to the Northern Hemisphere and having trifoliate leaves and clusters of white, pink, or purplish flowers. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Translation of Flemish bocks boonen, goat's beans : bocks, genitive of bock, goat + boonen, pl. of boon, bean.
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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