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[syn: yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers, Our Lady's bedstraw, Galium verum]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Lady's bedstraw \La"dy's bed"straw`\, (Bot.)
The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved
East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers
in umbels.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Maid's hair \Maid's" hair`\ (Bot.)
The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).
[1913 Webster] Maieutic
The 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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Galium verum
n 1: common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America
and Europe and Asia [syn: yellow bedstraw, yellow
cleavers, Our Lady's bedstraw, Galium verum]