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ladies' bedstraws

ladies' bedstraws is the plural of lady's bedstraw.

Meaning of lady's bedstraw

Noun

lady's bedstraw (usually uncountable, plural lady's bedstraws or ladies' bedstraws)

  1. (usually) A herbaceous perennial flowering plant, Galium verum, used in the Middle Ages for bedding and for making red dye.
  2. (usually) Carpetweed (Mollugo verticillata, syn. Pharnaceum mollugo), a slender-leaved East Indian shrub with white flowers in umbels.

Questions about ladies' bedstraws

What is ladies' bedstraws the plural of?
Ladies' bedstraws is the plural of lady's bedstraw.

Words near ladies' bedstraws in the dictionary

  1. ladies'
  2. ladies' aid societies
  3. ladies' aid society
  4. ladies' auxiliaries
  5. ladies' auxiliary
  6. ladies' bedstraws
  7. ladies' chain
  8. ladies' cloakroom
  9. ladies' cloakrooms
  10. ladies' companion
  11. ladies' companions

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