La·dy's bed·straw Bot. The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels.
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Maid's hair Bot. The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).
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Bed·straw n.
1. Straw put into a bed.
2. 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.
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Galium verum
n : common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and
Europe and Asia [syn: yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers,
Our Lady's bedstraw]