name
Meaning 1
A surname.
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Standard Lemma guide
woodruff
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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UK: /ˈwʊdɹʌf/
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CMU ARPABET: W UH1 D R AH0 F Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Navajo County, Arizona.
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Oneida County, Idaho.
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Johnson Township, LaGrange County, Indiana.
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Phillips County, Kansas.
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name
Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Platte County, Missouri.
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name
Meaning 7
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Spartanburg County, South Carolina.
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name
Meaning 8
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Rich County, Utah.
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name
Meaning 9
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Marshall County, West Virginia.
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name
Meaning 10
A number of places in the United States:
A town and census-designated place therein, in Oneida County, Wisconsin.
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noun
Meaning 11
Galium odoratum, an aromatic herb.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 12
any plant of the genus Asperula
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: subshrub, suffrutex
Narrower terms: dyer's woodruff, Asperula tinctoria
noun
Meaning 13
Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: sweet woodruff, waldmeister, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, Asperula odorata
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Broader terms: bedstraw
History
Etymology
See woodruff.
From Old English wudurofe, from wudu (“wood”) + rofe, of uncertain meaning and origin.
Across languages
Translations
19 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: лазаркиня (lazarkinja) — herb
- Catalan: espunyidella d'olor — herb
- Chinese Mandarin: 香猪殃殃 — herb
- Chinese Mandarin: 香车叶草 — herb
- Danish: skovmærke — herb
- Dutch: lievevrouwebedstro — herb
- Finnish: tuoksumatara — herb
- French: aspérule — herb
- French: reine des bois — herb
- German: Waldmeister — herb
- Hungarian: szagos müge — herb
- Icelandic: anganmaðra — herb
- Irish: lus molach — herb
- Japanese: クルマバソウ — herb
- Old English: wudurofe — herb
- Russian: ясме́нник (jasménnik) — herb
- Spanish: asperilla — herb
- Swedish: myskmadra — herb
- Turkish: orman iplikçiği — herb
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