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meadowrue

meadowrue noun: a plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.

Noun

meadowrue (countable and uncountable, plural meadowrues)

  1. A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum
    • He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91

Forms of meadowrue

pluralmeadowrues
alternative formmeadow-rue
alternative formmeadow rue

Origin of meadowrue

From meadow + rue.

Words formed from meadowrue

Questions about meadowrue

What does meadowrue mean?
Meadowrue means a plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum.
What part of speech is meadowrue?
Meadowrue is a noun.
What is the plural of meadowrue?
The plural of meadowrue is meadowrues.

Words near meadowrue in the dictionary

  1. meadowlark
  2. meadowlarks
  3. meadowless
  4. meadowlike
  5. meadowpride
  6. meadowrue
  7. meadowrues
  8. meadows
  9. Meadows row
  10. Meadows rows
  11. meadowscape

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