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  • noun Plural form of bedstraw.

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Examples

  • Another group of plants containing coumarin are the bedstraws.

    How to make żubrówka 2011

  • Furry, yellow dung flies skirt through the herbage, passing bedstraws and lady's smock; it is mostly in bud, but a few fingernail-sized pink gowns are on show.

    Country diary: Northamptonshire 2011

  • Among the profusion of flowers you can find scabious, the bedstraws, vetches, ragwort,

    Lessons on Soil E. J. Russell

  • There was a wide strip of turf on each side of the road bejewelled with poppies and daisies, matted with yellow and white bedstraws, carpeted with clovers, and over all lay a coating of fine chalky dust, legacy of passing cart and carriage.

    Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker Marguerite Bryant

  • Furry, yellow dung flies skirt through the herbage, passing bedstraws and lady's smock; it is mostly in bud, but a few fingernail-sized pink gowns are on show.

    The Guardian World News Matt Shardlow 2011

  • One legend has it that thyme was included among the hay used to make a bed for the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, so it is often considered one of “Mary’s bedstraws” of which there are several.

    Thyme - The Virgin's Humility Mary 2009

  • One legend has it that thyme was included among the hay used to make a bed for the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child, so it is often considered one of “Mary’s bedstraws” of which there are several.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Mary 2009

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