Bed"straw` (?), n.

1.

Straw put into a bed.

Bacon.

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 G. mollugo.

 

© Webster 1913.

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