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noun
Any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Any plant of the genus Cruciata.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Straw placed into a bed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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noun
any of several plants of the genus Galium
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: herb, herbaceous plant
Narrower terms: sweet woodruff, waldmeister, woodruff, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, Asperula odorata, Northern bedstraw, Northern snow bedstraw, Galium boreale, yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers, Our Lady's bedstraw, Galium verum, wild licorice, Galium lanceolatum, cleavers, clivers, goose grass, catchweed, spring cleavers, Galium aparine, wild madder, white madder, white bedstraw, infant's-breath, false baby's breath, Galium mollugo
History
From Middle English bedstraw, bedstrau, bedde-straw, equivalent to bed + straw.
Across languages
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