Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various shrubs of the genus Spiraea of the rose family, especially S. alba of North America, having tapered clusters of small white or light pink flowers.
- noun Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Filipendula of the rose family.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Any plant of the genus Spiræa, primarily S. Ulmaria of the Old World; in the United States more especially S. salicifolia.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered
Spiræa salicifolia , a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceousSpiræa Ulmaria , which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A Eurasian perennial flowering plant of
Rosaceae family, Filipendula ulmaria. - noun botany A common name for the genus
Spiraea of the Rosaceae family, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and consisting of about 80-100 species of shrubs.
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Examples
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One sense may bring dreams and echoes of another – you can see green water-shadows when the scent of meadowsweet is in the air, and hear remembered music when a certain light is on the hills.
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- also called meadowsweet does well in the shade and offers tons of color choices although mostly in the red, pink, lavender family. eMail (will not be published) (required)
Blisstree 2010
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Good spirits ... a glass of John Wright's homemade meadowsweet grass vodka, mixed with juice from apples in his garden.
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I knew that meadowsweet contained coumarin, but it's rather late in the season for this plant.
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Heavy doses of nitrogen fertiliser will tip the competitive balance in favour of grasses, and soon purple wood crane's bill, blood-red greater burnet, frothy white pignut and meadowsweet, yellow lady's bedstraw, globe flower and blue speedwells will vanish, leaving an "improved" pasture – more productive, more profitable, but oh-so dull.
Make hay meadow photos while the sun shines | Phil Gates 2011
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The wonderful smell of lady's bedstraw not as sickly as meadowsweet becomes stronger with drying.
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Wet-kneed, we walked by pastures filled with the white froth of meadowsweet and river-bank flora of lady's bedstraw, betony, devil's bit scabious, greater burnet and eyebright, kneeling several times to store memories of the scent of the last of the fragrant orchids.
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Having completed my experiments I must say that, despite my misgivings, meadowsweet came out on top, tasting remarkably like Susanne's brew.
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But if you have a space to grow, why not begin in the garden, in conceiving original dried blends: meadowsweet, verbena, bergamot, gardenia, tuberose, thyme, honeysuckle, sage and violet.
A New Whiff on Potpourri William L. Hamilton 2011
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I suggest filling the jar loosely one half full of dried plant, perhaps less for the more potent meadowsweet.
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