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noun

Bedstraw n.

Straw put into a bed.

(Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.

Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum.

White bedstraw is Galium mollugo.

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Etymology of 'Bedstraw'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bedstraw" Quotes from Famous Books

... morsels of grey down. But the general effect was pale, or rather silvery, for Wiltshire is not a county of heavy tints. Beneath these colours lurked the unconquerable chalk, and wherever the soil was poor it emerged. The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts. A dazzling amphitheatre gleamed in the flank of a distant hill, cut for some Olympian audience. And here and there, whatever the surface crop, the earth broke into little embankments, little ditches, ...

— The Longest Journey • E. M. Forster

Words linked to "Bedstraw" : Galium mollugo, wild madder, herb, Galium, white madder, false baby's breath, sweet woodruff, Northern bedstraw, Asperula odorata, cleavers, wild licorice, clivers, Galium aparine, white bedstraw, spring cleavers, infant's-breath, yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers