Crossword clues for woodruff
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Woodruff \Wood"ruff`\, Woodroof \Wood"roof`\, n. [AS. wudurofe. See Wood, n., and cf. Ruff a plaited collar.] (Bot.) A little European herb ( Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl.
Wiktionary
n. ''Galium odoratum'', an aromatic herb.
WordNet
n. 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 [syn: sweet woodruff, waldmeister, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, Asperula odorata]
any plant of the genus Asperula
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1869
Land area (2000): 3.661964 sq. miles (9.484444 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017927 sq. miles (0.046432 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.679891 sq. miles (9.530876 sq. km)
FIPS code: 79090
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 34.740530 N, 82.032580 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29388
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Woodruff
Housing Units (2000): 75
Land area (2000): 0.536856 sq. miles (1.390451 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.536856 sq. miles (1.390451 sq. km)
FIPS code: 85260
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.522888 N, 111.161383 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84086
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Woodruff
Housing Units (2000): 4089
Land area (2000): 586.563791 sq. miles (1519.193180 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.490663 sq. miles (19.400728 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 594.054454 sq. miles (1538.593908 sq. km)
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.196189 N, 91.244090 W
Headwords:
Woodruff, AR
Woodruff County
Woodruff County, AR
Wikipedia
Woodruff may refer to:
Woodruff is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Abraham O. Woodruff (1872–1904), member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and son of Wilford Woodruff
- Blake Woodruff (born 1995), actor
- Bille Woodruff, video and film director
- Bob Woodruff, an American journalist
- Bob Woodruff (American football) former University of Florida and Baylor University head football coach
- Bob Woodruff (singer), American country musician
- Bobby Woodruff (born 1940), former professional footballer
- Carle Augustus Woodruff (1841–1913), U.S. Army brigadier general and Medal of Honor recipient
- C. E. Woodruff, American reverend, educator, and college football coach
- Chris Woodruff (born 1973), American tennis player
- Christian B. Woodruff (born 1829), New york politician
- Dwayne Woodruff (born 1957), American football player
- Elvira Woodruff (born 1951), American children's writer
- Ernest Woodruff (1863–1944), Atlanta businessman who took over Coca-Cola
- Freddie Woodruff, American officer
- George Cecil Woodruff, an American businessman and football coach
- George Washington Woodruff, an American football coach as well as a teacher, lawyer and politician
- Hale Woodruff (1900–1980), American painter
- John Woodruff (representative) (1826–1868), was a U.S. Congressman from Connecticut
- John Woodruff (1915–2007), American 1936 Olympic gold metal 800 meter runner
- JT Woodruff, guitarist and lead vocalist of Hawthorne Heights
- Judy Woodruff, a TV journalist
- Lewis Bartholomew Woodruff (1809–1875), New York judge
- Maurice Woodruff (1916–1973), a British clairvoyant and astrologer
- Michael Woodruff, a pioneer in transplantation biology and surgery
- Paul Woodruff, philosophy and classics professor, University of Texas at Austin
- Richard Woodruff (Upper Canada politician) (1784–1872)
- Robert Woodruff (disambiguation), several people
- Rosalie Woodruff, Australian politician
- Roscoe B. Woodruff (1891–1975), American general
- Roy O. Woodruff (1876–1953), U.S. Representative from Michigan
- Sarah Woodruff, the main character of The French Lieutenant's Woman
- Thomas M. Woodruff (1804–1855), U.S. Congressman from New York
- Thomas Tuttle Woodruff (1811–1892), Woodruff Sleeping & Palace Car Company, Central Transportation Company, Woodruff Sleeping & Parlor Coach Company, Union Palace Car Company
- Timothy L. Woodruff (1858–1913), Lieutenant Governor of New York
- William Woodruff (disambiguation), several people
- Wilford Woodruff, fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Usage examples of "woodruff".
Drawn by a small Marblehead law firm, Woodruff, Stuart, and Nunes on Washington Street.
All around were twiggy oaks, just issuing their gold, and floor spaces diapered with woodruff, with patches of dog-mercury and tufts of hyacinth.
Woodruff and brooklime, both rich in tannin, relieved burns when applied in butter with the root of a lily.
Woodruff describes a child who began to menstruate at two years of age and continued regularly thereafter.
The Quirt had permission to cut posts for their new fence which Al Woodruff had reported to his boss.
It rattled the strutters and creens and stirred the hay which covered the floors, releasing the smell of stale woodruff, tossing the fire smoke back down into the rooms.
Woodruff and Wolf Blitzer challenged Zell Miller on CNN on September 1, 2004.
In the course of the weeks that followed, the two of us emptied over a dozen little packages of fizz powder, mostly with woodruff flavoring, then, when the woodruff ran out, lemon or raspberry, according to the very same ritual, making it fizz with my saliva, and so provoking a sensation which Maria came to value more and more.
I crept out of the living room and in the dark shop, beside the waxed paper and packages of pudding, found a little package which in the corridor, where there was some light, proved to be a package of fizz powder with woodruff flavoring.
The Sweet-scented Vernal Grass - with yellow anthers, not purple, as so many other grasses - gives its characteristic odour to newly-mown meadow hay, and has a pleasant aroma of Woodruff.
It had been difficult to detect because of the pleasant-tasting but highly perfumed woodruff and other aromatic flavors.
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.
A superior court judge invalidated Basko's twenty-five mill and divided the swag between Gail Curtiz and Linda Claire Woodruff.
Tonight a garland of sweet woodruff hung on a nail above the window, stirred by the soft breeze.
Not to be outwitted by the pleasant perfumed scent of the sweet woodruff and its ivory blooms.