Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bedstraw"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bedstraw \Bed"straw`\, n.
1. Straw put into a bed. --Bacon.

2. (Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square
stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.

{Our Lady's bedstraw}, which has yellow flowers, is {Galium
verum}.

{White bedstraw} is {G. mollugo}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bedstraw
n : any of several plants of the genus Galium

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