our lady's bedstraw

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our lady's bedstraw - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bedstraw \Bed"straw`\, n.
     1. Straw put into a bed. --Bacon.
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     2. (Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square
        stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.
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     Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium  verum
        .
  
     White bedstraw is Galium mollugo.
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our lady's bedstraw - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  Our Lady's bedstraw
      n 1: common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America
           and Europe and Asia [syn: yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers
           , Our Lady's bedstraw, Galium verum]