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meadowsweet

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mead⋅ow⋅sweet

[med-oh-sweet]
–noun
1. any plant belonging to the genus Spiraea, of the rose family, esp. S. latifolia, having white or pink flowers.
2. any plant of the closely related genus Filipendula (or Ulmaria).

Origin:
1520–30; meadow + sweet
mead·ow·sweet   (měd'ō-swēt')   
n.  
  1. Either of two North American shrubs (Spiraea alba or S. latifolia) having umbel-shaped clusters of white flowers.
  2. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Filipendula in the rose family.

Meadowsweet

Mead"ow*sweet`\, Meadowwort \Mead"ow*wort`\, n. (Bot.) The name of several plants of the genus Spir[ae]a, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
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