bedstraw

English

Etymology

From Middle English bedstraw, bedstrau, bedde-straw, equivalent to bed +‎ straw.

Noun

bedstraw (countable and uncountable, plural bedstraws)

1. any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers
2. Any plant of the genus .
3. (obsolete) straw put into a bed

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Derived terms

• alpine bedstraw ()
• Andrews' bedstraw ()
• Argus bedstraw ()
• Arkansas bedstraw ()
• awned bedstraw ()
• bald bedstraw ()
• bedstraw St. Johnswort ()
• bluntleaf bedstraw ()
• Bolander's bedstraw ()
• boreal bedstraw ()
• Borrego bedstraw ()
• box bedstraw ()
• bracted bedstraw ()
• bristly bedstraw ()
• bushy bedstraw ()
• California bedstraw ()
• Castle Lake bedstraw (
• cliff bedstraw ()
• climbing bedstraw ()
• coastal bedstraw ()
• Colorado bedstraw ()
• common marsh bedstraw ()
• Cone Peak bedstraw ()
• Day's bedstraw ()
• desert bedstraw ()
• Ebbett's bedstraw ()
• El Dorado bedstraw ()
• Emery County bedstraw ()
• European bedstraw ()
• fen bedstraw ()
• Fendler's bedstraw ()
• Fossil Hill Creek bedstraw ()
• fragrant bedstraw ()
• graceful bedstraw ()
• Gray's bedstraw ()
• hairy bedstraw ()
• Hall's bedstraw ()
• Hardham's bedstraw ()
• heath bedstraw ()
• Hilend's bedstraw ()
• Humboldt bedstraw ()
• Intermountain bedstraw ()
• Inyo bedstraw ()
• Jepson's bedstraw ()
• Johnston's bedstraw ()
• Kingston Mountains bedstraw ()
• lady's bedstraw (Galium verum)
• Lamarck's bedstraw ())
• largeleaf bedstraw ()
• licorice bedstraw ()
• limestone bedstraw ()
• limestone swamp bedstraw ()
• Malheur bedstraw ()
• Mexican bedstraw ()
• Modoc bedstraw ()
• Munz's bedstraw ()
• narrowleaf bedstraw ()
• Nevada bedstraw ()
• northern bedstraw ()
• northern bog bedstraw ()
• Okanoga bedstraw (
• oneflower bedstraw ()
• Onyx Peak bedstraw ()
• Oregon bedstraw ()
• Our Lady's bedstraw (Galium verum)
• Panamint Mountains bedstraw ()
• Parish's bedstraw ()
• phloxleaf bedstraw ()
• piedmont bedstraw ()
• purple bedstraw ()
• rough bedstraw ()
• roughfruit corn bedstraw ()
• San Antonio Canyon bedstraw ()
• San Gabriel bedstraw ()
• San Jacinto bedstraw (
• San Miguel Island bedstraw ())
• Santa Barbara bedstraw ()
• Santa Catalina Island bedstraw ()
• Santa Clemente Island bedstraw ()
• Santa Lucia bedstraw ()
• Schultes' bedstraw ()
• Scott Mountain bedstraw ()
• Sequoia bedstraw ()
• serpentine bedstraw ()
• shining bedstraw ()
• shrubby bedstraw ()
• Siskiyou bedstraw ()
• slender bedstraw ()
• smooth bedstraw ()
• southwestern bedstraw ()
• spreading bedstraw ()
• starry bedstraw ()
• stiff marsh bedstraw ()
• subalpine bedstraw ()
• sweetscented bedstraw (Galium odoratum)
• Texas bedstraw ()
• threepetal bedstraw ()
• twinleaf bedstraw ()
• wall bedstraw ()
• Warner Mountains bedstraw ()
• warty bedstraw ()
• Watson's bedstraw ()
• waxy bedstraw ()
• white bedstraw ()
• Wirtgen's bedstraw ()
• Wright's bedstraw (
• yellow bedstraw (Galium verum)
• Yellow Spring bedstraw (Galium verum)
• yellow wall bedstraw ()
• Yolla Bolly bedstraw ()

 

Translations

any plant of the herb genus Galium

• Czech: svízel (cs) f
• Finnish: matara (fi)
• Greek:

  Ancient: γάλιον n (gálion)

• Italian: caglio (it) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Kurdish:
• Maori: māwe
• Turkish: yoğurtotu (tr)

Further reading

• Galium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Galium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Galium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• bedstraw at USDA Plants database

See also

• strawbed

Anagrams

• straw bed, straw-bed, strawbed