galium odoratum

Questions about galium odoratum

What does galium odoratum mean?

galium odoratum 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 galium odoratum?

Close synonyms include sweet woodruff, waldmeister, woodruff, fragrant bedstraw, 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 galium odoratum a common word?

galium odoratum 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.