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Webster 1913 Edition
Meadowwort
{
Mead′ow-sweetˊ
,Mead′ow-wortˊ
, }Noun.
(Bot.)
The name of several plants of the genus
Spiraea
, especially the white- or pink-flowered Spiraea salicifolia
, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous Spiraea Ulmaria
, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.