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BEDSTRAW
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several plants of the genus Galium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("bedstraw" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bedstraw"):
Asperula odorata; fragrant bedstraw; Galium odoratum; sweet woodruff; waldmeister; woodruff (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)
Galium boreale; Northern bedstraw; Northern snow bedstraw (North American stoloniferous perennial having white flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental)
Galium verum; Our Lady's bedstraw; yellow bedstraw; yellow cleavers (common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia)
Galium lanceolatum; wild licorice (bedstraw with sweetish roots)
catchweed; cleavers; clivers; Galium aparine; goose grass; spring cleavers (annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia)
false baby's breath; Galium mollugo; infant's-breath; white bedstraw; white madder; wild madder (Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America)
Holonyms ("bedstraw" is a member of...):
Galium; genus Galium (annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers)
