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Woodruff

noun

Old World fragrant stoloniferous perennial having small white flowers and narrow leaves used as flavoring and in sachets; widely cultivated as a ground cover; in some classifications placed in genus Asperula. Synonyms: Asperula odorata, fragrant bedstraw, Galium odoratum, sweet woodruff, waldmeister.

Any plant of the genus Asperula.

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... Kimball Haun's Mill The Nauvoo House The Nauvoo Mansion Carthage Jail A Pioneer Train Salt Lake Valley in 1847 The Old Fort Salt Lake Tabernacle (Interior) Salt Lake Tabernacle (Exterior) President John Taylor President Wilford Woodruff The Pioneer Monument Salt Lake Temple and Grounds President Lorenzo Snow The First Presidency, 1916 Joseph Smith Monument and Memorial ...

— A Young Folks' History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • Nephi Anderson

... wrought such destruction to these lovely birds that very few are now found in the old nesting places. About 1889, according to Mr. F. M. Woodruff, this bird was almost completely exterminated in Florida, the plume hunters transferring their base of operation to the Texas coast of the Gulf, and the bird is now in a fair way to be utterly ...

— Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography [July 1897] - A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life • Various

... "Doc," or Woodruff. As they played, they drank from flasks produced by each in turn. Doc drank with the others, and deeper than any of them. They talked more and more, he less and less, until finally he interrupted their noisy volubility only when ...

— The Plum Tree • David Graham Phillips

... and from the Creamery was most delightful, especially those May days when there were such drifts of flowers and the wood was full of bluebells, and little white and blue wild anemones and harebells and sweet woodruff. ...

— The Story of Bawn • Katharine Tynan

Words linked to "Woodruff" : Asperula, bedstraw, May wine, suffrutex, Asperula tinctoria, Asperula odorata, genus Asperula, subshrub, waldmeister