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Definition of Bedstraw
1. Noun. Any of several plants of the genus Galium.
Group relationships: Galium, Genus Galium
Specialized synonyms: Asperula Odorata, Fragrant Bedstraw, Galium Odoratum, Sweet Woodruff, Waldmeister, Woodruff, Galium Boreale, Northern Bedstraw, Northern Snow Bedstraw, Galium Verum, Our Lady's Bedstraw, Yellow Bedstraw, Yellow Cleavers, Galium Lanceolatum, Wild Licorice, Catchweed, Cleavers, Clivers, Galium Aparine, Goose Grass, Spring Cleavers, False Baby's Breath, Galium Mollugo, Infant's-breath, White Bedstraw, White Madder, Wild Madder
Definition of Bedstraw
1. n. Straw put into a bed.
Definition of Bedstraw
1. Noun. a plant of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers ¹
2. Noun. (obsolete) straw put into a bed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bedstraw
1. a woody herb [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bedstraw
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1. Straw put into a bed.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bedstraw
Literary usage of Bedstraw
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Manual of the Medical Botany of North America by Laurence Johnson (1884)
"bedstraw. —CLEAVERS. Character of the Genus.—Calyx-teeth obsolete. ... Sweet-scented
bedstraw. Description.—Flowers axillary, on 3-flowered peduncles, ..."
2. Report: New York by Otis Stuart (1904)
"Hairy bedstraw. Frequent as far north as Grand-Saginaw Valley. C. & S. 1921. ...
Sweet-scented bedstraw. Frequent in C. & S., and very abundant northward. ..."
3. An illustrated natural history of British moths: With Life-size Figures from by Edward Newman (1869)
"Feeds on the large Willow Herb, which is so common on the sides of ditches, and
also on Ladics' bedstraw, and sometimes in gardens on ..."
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