sweet woodruff

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymswaldmeisterwoodrufffragrant bedstrawGalium odoratumAsperula odorata

   Broaderbedstraw

   Partssweet woodruff
2. 2.

   fragrant dark green leaves used to flavor May wine

   Synonymswaldmeister

   Broaderherb

   Part ofsweet woodruff

Questions about sweet woodruff

What does sweet woodruff mean?

sweet woodruff 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". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sweet woodruff?

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

sweet woodruff 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.