woodruff

See also: Woodruff

English

Woodruff

Alternative forms

• woodroof, woodrove, wuderove (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old English wudurofe, from wudu (“wood”) + rofe, of uncertain meaning and origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwʊdɹʌf/

Noun

woodruff (countable and uncountable, plural woodruffs)

1. Galium odoratum, an aromatic herb.

Synonyms

• (herb): waldmeister, sweet woodruff, Asperula odorata

Translations

herb

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: лазаркиня f (lazarkinja)
• Catalan: espunyidella d'olor f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 香猪殃殃, 香车叶草

• Danish: skovmærke
• Dutch: lievevrouwebedstro (nl) n
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: tuoksumatara
• French: aspérule (fr) f, reine des bois f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Waldmeister (de) m
• Hungarian: szagos müge (hu)
• Icelandic: anganmaðra f
• Irish: lus molach m
• Japanese: クルマバソウ
• Old English: wudurofe
• Russian: ясме́нник (ru) m (jasménnik)
• Spanish: asperilla f
• Swedish: myskmadra c
• Turkish: orman iplikçiği

References

• Galium odoratum on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Galium odoratum on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Galium odoratum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons