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bedstraw en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈbɛd.stɹɑ/ (cot-caught-merger)
• /ˈbɛd.stɹɔː/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• (Southern-England) audio
• /ˈbɛd.stɹɔ/ (General-American)

Etymology

From Middle English bedstraw, bedstrau, bedde-straw, equivalent to bed + straw.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers.
2. (countable, uncountable) Any plant of the genus Cruciata.
3. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Straw placed into a bed.
   • Fleas breed principally of straw or mats, where there hath been a little moisture; or the chamber and bedstraw kept close and not aired 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

Forms

Deriveds

yellow bedstraw · white bedstraw · Santa Barbara bedstraw · sweetscented bedstraw · Intermountain bedstraw · San Gabriel bedstraw · Parish's bedstraw · Humboldt bedstraw · bald bedstraw · Lamarck's bedstraw) · heath bedstraw · licorice bedstraw · fragrant bedstraw · oneflower bedstraw · Day's bedstraw · twinleaf bedstraw · Panamint Mountains bedstraw · roughfruit corn bedstraw · shining bedstraw · Fendler's bedstraw · purple bedstraw · Castle Lake bedstraw (Galium glabrescens · Santa Catalina Island bedstraw · Okanoga bedstraw (Galium serpenticum subsp. okanoganense · limestone bedstraw · Wright's bedstraw (Galium wrightii · Munz's bedstraw · boreal bedstraw · common marsh bedstraw · Texas bedstraw · Johnston's bedstraw · Wirtgen's bedstraw · Santa Lucia bedstraw · El Dorado bedstraw · Warner Mountains bedstraw · Andrews' bedstraw · San Jacinto bedstraw (Galium angustifolium subsp. jacinticum · Arkansas bedstraw · Onyx Peak bedstraw · piedmont bedstraw · Sequoia bedstraw · Cone Peak bedstraw · climbing bedstraw · box bedstraw · Emery County bedstraw · yellow wall bedstraw · cliff bedstraw · slender bedstraw · lady's bedstraw · San Miguel Island bedstraw) · fen bedstraw · Bolander's bedstraw · Gray's bedstraw · Santa Clemente Island bedstraw · coastal bedstraw · Schultes' bedstraw · hairy bedstraw · alpine bedstraw · waxy bedstraw · starry bedstraw · Yolla Bolly bedstraw · Hilend's bedstraw · bristly bedstraw · southwestern bedstraw · Jepson's bedstraw · rough bedstraw · Colorado bedstraw · Argus bedstraw · spreading bedstraw · Yellow Spring bedstraw · stiff marsh bedstraw · Fossil Hill Creek bedstraw · Ebbett's bedstraw · Scott Mountain bedstraw · desert bedstraw · European bedstraw · warty bedstraw · limestone swamp bedstraw · narrowleaf bedstraw · catchweed bedstraw · phloxleaf bedstraw · Oregon bedstraw · awned bedstraw · Borrego bedstraw · bedstraw St. Johnswort · Nevada bedstraw · Malheur bedstraw · bracted bedstraw · Modoc bedstraw · smooth bedstraw · northern bog bedstraw · California bedstraw · wood bedstraw · Our Lady's bedstraw · San Antonio Canyon bedstraw · Kingston Mountains bedstraw · serpentine bedstraw · shrubby bedstraw · northern bedstraw · largeleaf bedstraw · wall bedstraw · Inyo bedstraw · bushy bedstraw · Mexican bedstraw · graceful bedstraw · Watson's bedstraw · Siskiyou bedstraw · Hardham's bedstraw · Hall's bedstraw · bluntleaf bedstraw · threepetal bedstraw · subalpine bedstraw

Relateds

strawbed

Translations (9)

kmr rûnas (any plant of the herb genus Galium) · fi matara (any plant of the herb genus Galium) · it caglio (any plant of the herb genus Galium) · cs svízel (any plant of the herb genus Galium) · mi māwe (any plant of the herb genus Galium) · pl przytulia (any plant of the herb genus Galium) · tr yoğurtotu (any plant of the herb genus Galium) · de Labkraut (any plant of the herb genus Galium) · grc γάλιον (any plant of the herb genus Galium)