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Definition of meadowsweet in English: meadowsweetnoun ˈmɛdəʊswiːtˈmɛdoʊswit A tall Eurasian plant of the rose family, with heads of creamy-white sweet-smelling flowers, growing typically in damp meadows. Filipendula ulmaria, family Rosaceae Example sentencesExamples - Then white umbels of pignuts contrast with the drooping honey-scented cream plumes of meadowsweet.
- Plants thriving on the meadows include oxeye daisy, yellow-rattle, meadowsweet, bird's-foot trefoil and common knapweed.
- Other locally common tannin-rich plants include blackberry, raspberry, rose, lady's mantle, agrimony, meadowsweet, and strawberry (all members of the rose family), geraniums, purple loosestrife, and sumacs.
- She had sunk down to lie on the grass and was absently playing with a bloom of meadowsweet.
- Honey was used to make a sweet alcoholic drink called mead, which was usually flavoured with some form of herb such as meadowsweet.
Definition of meadowsweet in US English: meadowsweetnounˈmedōswētˈmɛdoʊswit A tall plant of the rose family (Rosaceae) with clusters of sweet-smelling flowers. Filipendula ulmaria, native to Eurasia and naturalized in North America, with creamy white flowers and favoring damp meadows Spiraeae latifola of North American meadows and roadsides, with white or pale pink flowers Example sentencesExamples - She had sunk down to lie on the grass and was absently playing with a bloom of meadowsweet.
- Other locally common tannin-rich plants include blackberry, raspberry, rose, lady's mantle, agrimony, meadowsweet, and strawberry (all members of the rose family), geraniums, purple loosestrife, and sumacs.
- Honey was used to make a sweet alcoholic drink called mead, which was usually flavoured with some form of herb such as meadowsweet.
- Plants thriving on the meadows include oxeye daisy, yellow-rattle, meadowsweet, bird's-foot trefoil and common knapweed.
- Then white umbels of pignuts contrast with the drooping honey-scented cream plumes of meadowsweet.
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