Meadowsweet

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Either of two North American shrubs (Spiraea alba or S. latifolia) having umbel-shaped clusters of white flowers.
  • n. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Filipendula in the rose family.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A Eurasian perennial flowering plant of Rosaceae family, Filipendula ulmaria.
  • n. A common name for the genus Spiraea of the Rosaceae family, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and consisting of about 80-100 species of shrubs.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered Spiræa salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous Spiræa Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Any plant of the genus Spiræa, primarily S. Ulmaria of the Old World; in the United States more especially S. salicifolia.
  • Word Usage
    "One sense may bring dreams and echoes of another – you can see green water-shadows when the scent of meadowsweet is in the air, and hear remembered music when a certain light is on the hills."
    Equivalent
    meadowwort   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    pride    of    queen    bridewort    meadsweet   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ragwort    champac    immaculateness    half-blown    new-lit