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countable and uncountable, plural bedstraws
any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers examples
Any plant of the genus Cruciata. examples
(obsolete) straw put into a bed quotations
Fleas breed principally of straw or mats, where there hath been a little moisture; or the chamber and bedstraw kept close and not aired
1631, Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […]