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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Our Lady's bedstraw
n : common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and
Europe and Asia [syn: yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers,
Galium verum]