bean-trefoil
English name of the Anagyris, a bushy shrub, bearing axillary racemes of yellow flowers, succeeded by narrow recurved pods. Sometimes applied to the Buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata), and formerly to the Laburnum.
| 1551 Turner Herbal 28 Anagyris..maye be called in Englishe, benetrifolye: because the leues grow thre together, and the sede is muche lyke a bene. 1607 Topsell Serpents 773 Leaves of Been-trifoly drunk in Wine. 1725 Bradley Fam. Dict., Bean-Trefoil, affords many fine yellow Blossoms. |