fragrant bedstraw

Questions about fragrant bedstraw

What does fragrant bedstraw mean?

fragrant bedstraw means "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".

What is another word for fragrant bedstraw?

Close synonyms include sweet woodruff, waldmeister, woodruff, Galium odoratum, Asperula odorata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is fragrant bedstraw a common word?

fragrant bedstraw is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.