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meadwort

meadwort noun: meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.

Noun

meadwort (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
    • The metall first he mixt with Medæwart, / That no enchauntment from his dint might saue; / That it in flames of Aetna wrought apart, / And seuen times dipped in the bitter waue / Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gaue.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

meadwort meaning in Tamil

meadwort in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

Forms of meadwort

alternative formmedæwart

Origin of meadwort

From Middle English medewort, from Old English medewyrt, medowyrt, corresponding to mead + wort. Cognate with Norwegian mjødurt, Danish mjødurt.

Questions about meadwort

What does meadwort mean?
Meadwort means meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
What is meadwort in Tamil?
Meadwort in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Meadwort meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is meadwort?
Meadwort is a noun.

Words near meadwort in the dictionary

  1. meadowwort
  2. meadowy
  3. meads
  4. meadsweet
  5. Meadville
  6. meadwort
  7. meady
  8. Meaford
  9. Meagain
  10. Meagan
  11. meager

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Adapted from Wiktionary: meadwort (page history and authors); meadwort (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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