BEDSTRAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bedstraw mean? 

• BEDSTRAW (noun)
  The noun BEDSTRAW has 1 sense:

1. any of several plants of the genus Galium

  Familiarity information: BEDSTRAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BEDSTRAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Galium

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("bedstraw" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bedstraw"):

Asperula odorata; fragrant bedstraw; Galium odoratum; sweet woodruff; waldmeister; woodruff (Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula)

Galium boreale; Northern bedstraw; Northern snow bedstraw (North American stoloniferous perennial having white flowers; sometimes used as an ornamental)

Galium verum; Our Lady's bedstraw; yellow bedstraw; yellow cleavers (common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia)

Galium lanceolatum; wild licorice (bedstraw with sweetish roots)

catchweed; cleavers; clivers; Galium aparine; goose grass; spring cleavers (annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia)

false baby's breath; Galium mollugo; infant's-breath; white bedstraw; white madder; wild madder (Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America)

Holonyms ("bedstraw" is a member of...):

Galium; genus Galium (annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers)