Associations to the word «Bedstraw»

Wiktionary

BEDSTRAW, noun. Any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers
BEDSTRAW, noun. (obsolete) straw put into a bed

Dictionary definition

BEDSTRAW, noun. Any of several plants of the genus Galium.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope