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meadowsweet
noun[ C or U ]
uk /ˈmed.əʊ.swiːt/ us /ˈmed.oʊ.swiːt/
a tall, wild plant that grows in wet ground and has large groups of small sweet-smelling white flowers:
Meadowsweet was traditionally used to treat digestive disorders.
Seeing these orchids, meadowsweets, sedges, and vetches creates a sense of possibility.
Synonym
spirea
Meadowsweet has a fragrant, cloud-like mass of white flowers.
The name for aspirin was derived from Spiraea, the Latin name for meadowsweet at the time.
They drove between hedges filled with meadowsweet and campion.
Clumps of meadowsweet and sedge are the last remnants of Henley's ancient marsh.
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