'Meadow rue' definitions:
Definition of 'meadow rue'
(from WordNet)
noun
Any of various herbs of the genus Thalictrum; sometimes rhizomatous or tuberous perennials found in damp shady places and meadows or stream banks; have lacy foliage and clouds of small purple or yellow flowers
Definition of 'Meadow rue'
From: GCIDE
- Meadow \Mead"ow\, a. Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow ground." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]
- Meadow beauty. (Bot.) Same as Deergrass.
- Meadow foxtail (Bot.), a valuable pasture grass (Alopecurus pratensis) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.
- Meadow hay, a coarse grass, or true sedge, growing in uncultivated swamp or river meadow; -- used as fodder or bedding for cattle, packing for ice, etc. [Local, U. S.]
- Meadow hen. (Zool.) (a) The American bittern. See Stake-driver. (b) The American coot (Fulica). (c) The clapper rail.
- Meadow mouse (Zool.), any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species Arvicola riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.
- Meadow mussel (Zool.), an American ribbed mussel ({Modiola plicatula}), very abundant in salt marshes.
- Meadow ore (Min.), bog-iron ore, a kind of limonite.
- Meadow parsnip. (Bot.) See under Parsnip.
- Meadow pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
- Meadow pipit (Zool.), a small singing bird of the genus Anthus, as Anthus pratensis, of Europe.
- Meadow rue (Bot.), a delicate early plant, of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species.
- Meadow saffron. (Bot.) See under Saffron.
- Meadow sage. (Bot.) See under Sage.
- Meadow saxifrage (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant of Europe (Silaus pratensis), somewhat resembling fennel.
- Meadow snipe (Zool.), the common or jack snipe. [1913 Webster] meadowgrass