'Our Lady's bedstraw' definitions:
Definition of 'Our Lady's bedstraw'
From: WordNet
noun
Common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia [syn: yellow bedstraw, yellow cleavers, Our Lady's bedstraw, Galium verum]
Definition of 'Our Lady's bedstraw'
From: GCIDE
- Bedstraw \Bed"straw`\, n.
- 1. Straw put into a bed. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Bot.) A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers. [1913 Webster]
- Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is {Galium verum}.
- White bedstraw is Galium mollugo. [1913 Webster]