Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Eurasian plant (Filipendula vulgaris syn. F. hexapetala) in the rose family, having finely divided leaflets and clusters of small white flowers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An English name for the Spirœa Filipendula.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An Old World species of Spiræa (
Spiræa filipendula ), with finely cut leaves.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
perennial herb , Filipendula vulgaris, closely related tomeadowsweet .
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Examples
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The dropwort is a fabulous plant with evergreen ferny foliage that seems to grow in any condition.
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I see I must have some of the white dropwort and nigella.
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When I first looked at the dropwort it reminded me of fall clematis.
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I, too, love the dropwort and will have to be on the lookout for that.
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It goes very nicely with the dropwort, blooming at the same time too.
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The dropwort is super easy and due to a long taproot, whenever it is moved a piece is always left behind to regrow in the original spot.
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The edge of the pond bank was thick with water plants, and I foraged with my digging stick for mallow root and the small, fine-leaved dropwort.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Other new ingredients were Agretti, corky-fruited water dropwort, bilwa or Belfruit, and squash blossoms.
Weekend Herb Blogging Year In Review: Weeks 21-30, and a Recipe Kalyn Denny 2006
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The quaint three-lobed leaves, shaped like a grebe's foot, were still small, and the flowerstocks, thick as corn in a field, were crowned with pyramids of buds, cream and rosy-red like the opening dropwort clusters, and at the lower end of the spikes were the full-blown singular, snow-white, cottony flowers -- our strange and beautiful water edelweiss.
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Wild thyme continues to bloom -- the shepherd's thyme -- wild mignonette, blue scabious, white dropwort, yellow bedstraw, and the large purple blooms of greater knapweed.
Nature Near London Richard Jefferies 1867
chained_bear commented on the word dropwort
"... I foraged with my digging stick for mallow root and the small, fine-leaved dropwort. I had half the basket filled when I heard a polite cough behind me."
—Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (NY: Delacorte Press, 1991), 607
January 1, 2010