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FRAGRANT BEDSTRAW

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• FRAGRANT BEDSTRAW (noun)
The noun FRAGRANT BEDSTRAW has 1 sense:

1. Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula

Familiarity information: FRAGRANT BEDSTRAW used as a noun is very rare.

• FRAGRANT BEDSTRAW (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Asperula odorata; fragrant bedstraw; Galium odoratum; sweet woodruff; waldmeister; woodruff

Hypernyms ("fragrant bedstraw" is a kind of...):

bedstraw (any of several plants of the genus Galium)

Meronyms (parts of "fragrant bedstraw"):

sweet woodruff; waldmeister (fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine)

Holonyms ("fragrant bedstraw" is a substance of...):

May wine (a punch made of Moselle and sugar and sparkling water or champagne flavored with sweet woodruff)

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