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lady's bedstraw

lady's bedstraw noun: a herbaceous perennial flowering plant, Galium verum, used in the Middle Ages for bedding and for making red dye.

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.

Synonyms of lady's bedstraw

Forms of lady's bedstraw

plurallady's bedstraws
pluralladies' bedstraws

Questions about lady's bedstraw

What does lady's bedstraw mean?
Lady's bedstraw means a herbaceous perennial flowering plant, Galium verum, used in the Middle Ages for bedding and for making red dye.
What part of speech is lady's bedstraw?
Lady's bedstraw is a noun.
What is the plural of lady's bedstraw?
The plural of lady's bedstraw is lady's bedstraws.

Words near lady's bedstraw in the dictionary

  1. lady slippers
  2. lady smock
  3. lady smocks
  4. Lady Washington geranium
  5. lady who lunches
  6. lady's bedstraw
  7. lady's bedstraws
  8. lady's bike
  9. lady's bower
  10. lady's chair
  11. lady's cloth

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