The Collaborative International Dictionary
Meadowsweet \Mead"ow*sweet`\, Meadowwort \Mead"ow*wort`\, n. (Bot.) The name of several plants of the genus Spir[ae]a, especially the white- or pink-flowered Spir[ae]a salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous Spir[ae]a Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
Wiktionary
n. 1 ]A Eurasian perennial flowering plant of Rosaceae family, ''Filipendula ulmaria''. 2 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.
Wikipedia
Written by Baroness Orczy, the author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, Meadowsweet was first published in 1912.
Meadowsweet may refer to:
- Filipendula ulmaria, a plant native to much of Europe and western Asia, introduced in some parts of America
- Several species of Spiraea, a plant genus of the Northern Hemisphere, including:
- Spiraea alba
- Spiraea tomentosa
- Meadowsweet (novel), a romance novel by Baroness Emmuska Orczy
- Meadowsweet, California, an unincorporated community in Marin County
Usage examples of "meadowsweet".
Some, like meadowsweet and cowslips, sweet flag and spikenard, are like the names of Shakespeare fairies.
Ned and I had been there once, to that bit of fen I mean, and walked in deep among the dogwood and the meadowsweet, I remembered it now, exactly where the -house was.
These summer evenings I walk in the fen a lot, taking the path that starts at my garden gate and winds among the willows and the alders and meadowsweet, passes into clearings where water lies and reeds grow, and back again into the quiet woodland.
Some of the time he could hardly see the narrow sidewalk path between the dusty meadowsweet and hardhack bushes, since those floating black threads wove together into a veritable veil before him.
Watching her stand there in the field, garlanded with meadowsweet to invoke the Mother of Rains, seeing her uplift a Rod burning with the Fire and call the rainclouds to her with Flame and poetry.
Coel now rejoined us, and as calm as if nothing had happened, I drank a little more liberally of the honey and meadowsweet wine than I usually did.
The formal patterns of a herb garden were waiting for the plants to start spreading themselves in their new beds, but faint scent was already rising from the little clumps of bee-balm, meadowsweet and moth-bane.
Glys Meadowsweet, that her parents were not known to her, but were presumably gentlefolk of Castle Hagedom who had exceeded their birth tally.
On a fallen tree a hundred feet from the Birds sat Glys Meadowsweet, examining a blade of grass as if it had been an astonishing artifact of the past.
Glys Meadowsweet laughed, an easy merry sound, like nothing Xanten had ever heard at Castle Hagedom.
With a display of passion which astounded Xanten, Glys Meadowsweet tore the flower from her hair, buried it at the ground.
Glys Meadowsweet relaxed and allowed Xairtci to embrace her, while the Birds clucked, guffawed and made vulgar scratching sounds with their wings.
Five years later Xanten and Glys Meadowsweet, with their two children, had reason to travel north from their home near Sande River.
Desperately they exercise their talent here, dreaming of bitter ale and meadowsweet but cut off for ever, yes for ever, from the Piccadilly flyover and the Hyde Park State Museum and the Communal Beerhall on Hammersmith Broadway.
They were sheltered from the wind here and creamy plumes of meadowsweet scented the still, warm air.