Definitions for bedstraw

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IPA: /ˈbɛdˌstrɔ/

Bedstraw is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 416 anagrams from letters in bedstraw (abderstw).

Definitions for bedstraw

noun

  1. a rubiaceous plant, Galium verum, or some allied species, formerly used as straw for stuffing mattresses.

Origin of bedstraw

late Middle English word dating back to 1350-1400; See origin at bed, straw

Examples for bedstraw

It feeds at night on bedstraw (Galium), in the spring to May, after hibernation.

It feeds at night on bedstraw, and various low-growing herbage, including grass.

Three of the four belong to the bedstraw genus (Galium), in which the corolla is wheel-shaped.

It feeds on bedstraw, in June and July, and a second brood occurs in September.

Its greenish eggs are laid on bedstraw, and in July and August the caterpillars may be found on the same kind of plant.

It feeds on goose-grass (Galium aparine), and other kinds of bedstraw, in May and early June.

By way of the lower heaven of bedstraw blooms the eye rises easily to the forest of jewel-weeds.

The grassy track, so gay with scabious and bedstraw, was snow-white at the bottom of its ruts.

Lady in names of flowers such as lady's bedstraw, lady's garter, lady's slipper, is for Our Lady.

Chafe Litter is he that wyll plucke vp the Fether-bed or Matrice, and pysse in the bedstraw, and wyl neuer ryse vncalled.

Word Value for bedstraw
Scrable

14

Words with friends

15

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