Meadowwort

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Meadowsweet \Mead"ow*sweet`\, Meadowwort \Mead"ow*wort`\, n.
     (Bot.)
     The name of several plants of the genus {Spiraea}, especially
     the white- or pink-flowered {Spiraea salicifolia}, a low
     European and American shrub, and the herbaceous {Spiraea
     Ulmaria}, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.


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