Definition of Menyanthes trifoliata

1. Noun. 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.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Menyanthes Trifoliata

Menticirrhus
Menticirrhus americanus
Menticirrhus littoralis
Menticirrhus saxatilis
Menticirrhus undulatus
Mentor
Mentzelia
Mentzelia laevicaulis
Mentzelia lindleyi
Mentzelia livicaulis
Menuhin
Menura
Menurae
Menuridae
Menyanthaceae
Menyanthes trifoliata (current term)
Menziesia
Menziesia ferruginea
Menziesia pilosa
Mephaquine
Mephistophelean
Mephistopheles
Mephitinae
Mephitis
Mephitis macroura
Mephitis mephitis
Meprin
Meralgia paraesthetica
Merc
Mercalli scale

Literary usage of Menyanthes trifoliata

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia: Commercial by Edward Balfour (1885)
"In all parts of the world bitter sub- Menyanthes trifoliata and the Tormentil are as popular in northern regions, ..."

2. American Medical Botany: Being a Collection of the Native Medicinal Plants by Jacob Bigelow (1817)
"... which are inundated at certain seasons, and never wholly destitute of water, .are the favorite situations of the Menyanthes trifoliata. ..."

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