meadow rue
- noun
- /ˈmɛdoʊ ru/
:
ruda de pradera
- The garden featured many wildflowers, including the striking meadow rue with its divided leaves.
- purple meadow rue
- meadow rue and aster
- meadow rue and nettle
Examples
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She admired the delicate flowers of the meadow rue as she walked along the stream bank.
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Some of the state and federally listed rare species found there are the gopher tortoise, pine snake, and Cooley's meadow rue.
Academic text (2008) -
In the damp meadow, purple meadow rue blooms vividly among the grasses.
Synonyms
A group of meadow plants that live for many years, with small delicate flowers and divided leaves
A group of flowering plants called meadow rue that live for many years
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a transparent noun–noun compound: 'meadow' specifies the habitat and 'rue' names the plant, so the phrase straightforwardly denotes a rue that grows in meadows. The meaning is compositional and follows a common cross-linguistic pattern for plant names, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
Meadow rue may get its name from the plant's look and where it grows: people thought its fine, divided leaves looked like the garden herb rue, but it lived out in a meadow. That's why the name means a 'rue' that grows in a meadow.
