woodruff
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 • Syn: sweet woodruff, waldmeister, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, Asperula odorata • Hypernyms: bedstraw • Substance Holonyms: May wine • Part Meronyms: sweet woodruff, waldmeister 2. any plant of the genus Asperula • Hypernyms: subshrub, suffrutex • Hyponyms: dyer's woodruff, Asperula tinctoria • Member Holonyms: Asperula, genus Asperula
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