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woodruff1|ˈwʊdrʌf|
Forms: 1 wudu-, wuderofe, -rife, 3 wuderoue, 4 woderowe, 4–5 -rove, 5 -rofe, wodrove, -roffe, -ruffe, 5–6 -rofe, 6 woodroue, -rowe, -rofe, -roof(f)e, 7 -rof, -rough, 7– -roof, (8 -rooff), 9 woodruff, (Sc. -riff, arch. wooderoofe, wood-ruffe).
[OE. wudurofe, f. wudu wood n.1 + *rofe, *rife, of unknown meaning.]
A low-growing herb (Asperula odorata, N.O. Rubiaceæ) found in woods in Britain and Europe generally, with clusters of small white flowers, and strongly sweet-scented leaves in whorls; also descriptively or distinctively called sweet woodruff. Also attrib.
c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 18 Herba astula regia þæt is wudu rofe. Ibid. II. 64 Wiþ þære winestran sidan sare wudurifan ᵹecnuwa on eced. c1265Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wü lcker 558/10 Hastula regia, i. muge de bois, i. wuderoue. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xiii. 43 A-way is huere wynter wo, when woderove springeth. a1400Stockholm Med. MS. 191 Woderowe, hastilogia. 14..in Wr.-Wülcker 566/20 Astula regia, woderofe. 1477–9Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 81 Rose-garlondis and wodrove-garlondis. 1525Grete Herbal xli. (1529) C iv, De astula regia. Woodroue. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccxlvii. 966 In English Woodrooffe, Woodrowe, and Woodrowell. 1785Martyn Lett. Bot. xv. (1794) 164 Sherardia and woodroof have funnel-shaped corollas. 1824Hogg Tales & Sk., Priv. Mem. Fanatic (1837) V. 83 Murder will out, though the Almighty should lend hearing to the ears of the willow, and speech to the seven tongues of the woodriff. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xix. 263 As a bunch of woodruff will sweeten a lumber-room.
b. Extended to other species of Asperula.
1597Gerarde Herbal ii. ccccxlvii. 965 There is another sort of Woodrooffe called Asperula Cærulea, or blew Woodrooffe. 1688Holme Armoury ii. 98/2 Woodroof... Some have blew, others purple coloured flowers. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. II. App. A. 260 Woodroof, a species of madder used as a red dye. 1865Sowerby's Engl. Bot. (ed. 3) IV. 231 Asperula Arvensis... Blue Field Woodruff. 1866Treas. Bot. 1236 Woodroof, or Woodruff.., Quinsy, Asperula cynanchica. |