lady's bedstraw
English
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Noun
[edit]lady's bedstraw (usually uncountable, plural lady's bedstraws or ladies' bedstraws)
- A herbaceous perennial flowering plant, Galium verum, used in the Middle Ages for bedding and for making red dye.
- Synonyms: yellow bedstraw, Our Lady's bedstraw
- Carpetweed (Mollugo verticillata, syn. Pharnaceum mollugo), a slender-leaved East Indian shrub with white flowers in umbels.
Translations
[edit]Galium verum
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