meadowsweet

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meadowsweet - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Meadowsweet \Mead"ow*sweet`\, Meadowwort \Mead"ow*wort`\, n.
     (Bot.)
     The name of several plants of the genus Spiraea, especially
     the white- or pink-flowered Spiraea salicifolia, a low
     European and American shrub, and the herbaceous Spiraea Ulmaria
     , which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
     [1913 Webster]