Found 2 hits - Term: bog bean, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
bog \bog\ bo^g, n. ir. gael. bog soft, tender, moist: cf.
ir. bogach bog, moor, marsh, gael. bogan quagmire.
1913 webster
1. a quagmire filled with decayed moss and other vegetable
matter; wet spongy ground where a heavy body is apt to
sink; a marsh; a morass.
1913 webster
appalled with thoughts of bog, or caverned pit,
of treacherous earth, subsiding where they tread.
--r. jago.
1913 webster
2. a little elevated spot or clump of earth, roots, and
grass, in a marsh or swamp. local, u. s.
1913 webster
bog bean. see buck bean.
bog bumper bump, to make a loud noise, bog blitter,
bog bluiter, bog jumper, the bittern. prov.
bog butter, a hydrocarbon of butterlike consistence found
in the peat bogs of ireland.
bog earth min., a soil composed for the most part of
silex and partially decomposed vegetable fiber. --p. cyc.
bog moss. bot. same as sphagnum.
bog myrtle bot., the sweet gale.
bog ore. min.
a an ore of iron found in boggy or swampy land; a
variety of brown iron ore, or limonite.
b bog manganese, the hydrated peroxide of manganese.
bog rush bot., any rush growing in bogs; saw grass.
bog spavin. see under spavin.
1913 webster
see also:
bog bean buck bean bog bumper bog blitter bog bluiter bog jumper
bog butter bog earth bog moss sphagnum bog myrtle
bog ore bog rush bog spavin spavin
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
buckbean \buckbean\, buck bean \buck" bean`\b=en`. bot.
a perennial plant menyanthes trifoliata of europe and
america which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes
of white, reddish, or purplish flowers and intensely bitter
trifoliate leaves, sometimes used in medicine; marsh trefoil;
-- called also bog bean. it often roots at the water margin
and spreads across the surface.
syn: water shamrock, bogbean, bog myrtle, marsh trefoil,
menyanthes trifoliata.
1913 webster + wordnet 1.5
see also:
menyanthes trifoliata bog bean
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