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lady's bedstraws

lady's 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 lady's bedstraws

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

Words near lady's bedstraws in the dictionary

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

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