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woodruff

Noun

Wood=ruff

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woodruff(n = noun.plant) asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister - Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula; Array

has parts: sweet woodruff, waldmeister

is a kind of bedstraw

has particulars: asperula tinctoria, dyer's woodruff

is a kind of subshrub, suffrutex

woodruff, n. [AS. wudurofe. See Wood, n., and cf. Ruff a plaited collar.].

A little European herb (Asperula odorata) having a pleasant taste. It is sometimes used for flavoring wine. See Illust. of Whorl. [1913 Webster]

woodruff, n. a white-flowered plant of the genus Galium, esp. G. odoratum grown for the fragrance of its whorled leaves when dried or crushed.

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