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Bedstraw   /bˈɛdstrˌɔ/   Listen
Bedstraw

noun
1.
Any of several plants of the genus Galium.



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"Bedstraw" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Bethlehem," according to Folkard, because "its white stellate flowers resemble the pictures of the star that indicated the birth of the Saviour of mankind" (448. 553). The Galium verum, "Our Lady's Bedstraw," receives its name from the belief that the manger in which the infant Jesus lay was filled with this plant ...
— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain
... he cried to me, as he bent his head reverently, 'we hae striven like Jacob an' hae prevailed. There's a deid man lies upon the bedstraw.' ...
— Border Ghost Stories • Howard Pease


Words linked to "Bedstraw" :   spring cleavers, wild licorice, Galium odoratum, catchweed, yellow cleavers, sweet woodruff, cleavers, wild madder, herb, clivers, Galium verum, Galium mollugo, goose grass, Galium, woodruff, genus Galium, infant's-breath, false baby's breath, waldmeister, Asperula odorata, herbaceous plant, white madder, Galium boreale, Galium lanceolatum, Galium aparine


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