white bedstraw

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white 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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white bedstraw - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  white bedstraw
      n 1: Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers;
           naturalized in North America [syn: wild madder, white madder
           , white bedstraw, infant's-breath, false baby's breath
           , Galium mollugo]