meadowsweet
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- noun
- /ˈmɛdəˌswit/
:
reina de los prados
- Animosity arose because of our great preference for blossoming thistles and luxuriously thriving bishop's weed, goutweed, and meadowsweet.
- white meadowsweet
Examples
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Alice had wanted to photograph Lucinda in the meadowsweet back then, drive out to the mountains, park Lucinda's baby buggy in a whole field of meadowsweet, the baby looking back at her, and snap away.
Fiction book (2000) -
Alice had wanted to photograph Lucinda in the meadowsweet back then, drive out to the mountains, park Lucinda's baby buggy in a whole field of meadowsweet, the baby looking back at her, and snap away.
Fiction book (2000) -
Camomile and meadowsweet, parsley
Fiction book (1998) -
Are sundew, meadowsweet, Lady's Mantle, and Bachelor's Button meant only for your pleasure, your eye's caress?
Fiction book (1998) -
Fringed with foxglove, meadowsweet, and bright yellow iris, the massive branches of oaks leaned over the pool in the center of the clearing.
Fiction book (1995) -
St. Peterswort, hibiscus with their poking anthers, goat's rue, dense white meadowsweet.
Fiction book (2000) -
Originally, aspirin was just Bayer's brand name, A for acetyl and Spur for meadowsweet, whose botanical name is Spirea olmaria.
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The Stillwater Natural Area is significant for such shrubs as arrow-wood, hardhack, meadowsweet, sheep laurel, winterberry, and withe-rod.
Academic text (2011) -
Collectively called puckerbrush in Vermont usage, the dominant plants are steeplebush, meadowsweet, running blackberry, meadow rose, and Joe Pye weed.
Academic text (1991) -
The meadowsweet plant blooms in summer with clusters of fragrant white flowers.
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Meadowsweet is a simple combination of meadow 'a field of grass' and sweet 'pleasant smell or taste'. It was named for the plant's sweet-smelling flowers that grow in meadows, which explains why people use it in teas and traditional remedies.