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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The English meadow-sweet, Spiræa Ulmaria, an herb a yard high, with pinnate leaves, and a compound cyme of very numerous small yellowish-white sweet-scented flowers; also, rarely, the American meadow-sweet, Spiræa salicifolia.
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Thus go they plunging; rustle the owlet from his branchy nest; champ the sweet-scented forest-herb, queen-of-the-meadows spilling her spikenard; and frighten the ear of Night.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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