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Webster 1913 Edition


Meadowwort

{

Mead′ow-sweetˊ

,

Mead′ow-wortˊ

, }
Noun.
(Bot.)
The name of several plants of the genus
Spiraea
, especially the white- or pink-flowered
Spiraea salicifolia
, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous
Spiraea Ulmaria
, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

Definition 2024


meadowwort

meadowwort

English

Noun

meadowwort (uncountable)

  1. The plant meadowsweet.