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n. - Any of several plants of the genus Galium.

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Usage examples (26)
  • Down the road, there's bedstraw, this morning all misty moisty.
  • And here are some strawberries, ground ivy, clover, and bedstraw.
  • Smelled: clover, grass, and bedstraw/madder--early summer a bouquet:
  • On one side of the door with the peephole, Meninx lay on bedstraw already befouled.
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