meadowsweet

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English

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Filipendula ulmaria

Etymology

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Corruption of mead sweet, from use in making mead.

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meadowsweet (plural meadowsweets)

  1. A Eurasian perennial flowering plant of Rosaceae family, Filipendula ulmaria.
  2. Any plant of the genus Spiraea of the Rosaceae family, native to the temperate Northern Hemisphere and consisting of about 80–100 species of shrubs.

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