Crossword clues for bedstraw
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bedstraw \Bed"straw`\, n.
Straw put into a bed.
--Bacon.-
(Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers.
Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum.
White bedstraw is Galium mollugo.
Wiktionary
n. 1 any plant of herb genus ''Galium'' of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers 2 (context obsolete English) straw put into a bed
WordNet
n. any of several plants of the genus Galium
Wikipedia
- redirect Galium
Usage examples of "bedstraw".
Furthermore, this Bedstraw has been called Goose-grease, from a mistaken belief that obstructive ailments of geese can be cured therewith.
The flowers of this Bedstraw bloom towards August, about the time of the Feast of the Annunciation, and a legend says they first burst into blossom at the birth of our Saviour.
Highlanders make special use of the common Yellow Bedstraw for this purpose, and to colour their cheese.
Old herbalists affirmed that the root of this same Bedstraw, if drunk in wine, stimulates amorous desires, and that the flowers, if long smelt at, will produce a similar effect.
Henceforth, I desire to live upon a flat with never a hill in sight, amidst honest folk as stupid as their own sheep, who go to church on Sundays and get drunk, not with hachich, but on brown ale, brought to them by no white-robed sorceress, but by a draggle-tailed wench in a tavern, with her musty bedstraw still sticking in her hair.
His arms were wet to the elbows, so he must have just washed at the well after laying bedstraw for the horses and mules.
The mattress was still fragrant with bedstraw gathered in the golden days of autumn but the linen wanted washing, if not today then soon.
Instead I packed them in my bedstraw, hoping they would not be eaten by the little creatures God sends to torment us.
He rebelled, obtained a copy of the English translation and hid it under his bedstraw, reading it when he could.
Even the common names of wildflowers - stitchwort, lady's bedstraw, blue fleabane, feverfew -have an inescapable enchantment about them.
Bedstraw [Galium verum]: The shoots are a source of yellow dye, while the roots are a source of red.
The natural order Rubiaceae, to which the Madder (Rubia tinctoria) and our common wild plants, the Clivers, the Bedstraws and Sweet Woodruff belong, comprises upwards of 3,000 species.
The Yellow Bedstraw can furnish a red dye, like its ally, the Madder of the Continent, Rubia tinctorum.