Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A plant of the genus Galium.
- noun [capitalized] A large genus of rubiaceous herbs, with square slender stems, verticillate estipulate leaves, small tetramerous and usually white flowers, and a single seed in each of the two cells of the fruit, which is dry or sometimes berry-like.
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- noun botany Any of the
genus Galium ofannual andperennial herbaceous plants , including thebedstraws .
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- noun annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers
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Examples
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Patches of wayside took a yellow tinge from the cross-wort galium; others, conquered by ground-ivy or veronica, were purple or blue.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Another plant that I now noticed for the first time was a galium with crimson flowers.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Bedstraw galium and field scabious, ox-eyes and knapweed, bladder-campions and ragged robins, mallows and crane's-bill -- all the flowers of the English banks seemed to be there.
Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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They dye their porcupine quills a beautiful scarlet, with the roots of two species of bed-straw (galium tinctorium, and boreale) which they indiscriminately term _sawoyan_.
Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Polar Sea, in the Years 1819-20-21-22, Volume 1 John Franklin 1816
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Nos Otto de Monte Mindenfis Ecclefie Canoni - cus tenore prefencium publice recognorci - mus & proteftamur, quod Venerabilibus & difcretis viris bfiis Decano totique capitulo & vicarijs ejus - dem Mindenfis Ecclefie vendidimus redditus vigin - ti quatuor folidorum denariorum levium IVf indc le - galium de curia habitationis noftre fituata circa Ecclefiam feu capellam fanfti yobmms in emunita -
Subsidia diplomatica ad selecta juris Ecclesiastici Germaniae: et historiarum capita elucidanda ... 1777
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a few sprays of galium or the perennial gypsophila, makes one of the choicest of table decorations.
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slumry commented on the word galium
A plant genus includes woodruff, known as bedstraw. It is in the madder family Rubiaceae, as is coffea. Diverse and useful family, Rubiacea.
July 18, 2007
ruzuzu commented on the word galium
"The yellow or lady's bedstraw, G. verum, has yellow flowers, as has also the crosswort, G. cruciatum. The former is employed in some parts of Great Britain for coagulating milk."
--from the Century Dictionary
September 28, 2010