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meadowsweet

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mead·ow·sweet  (md-swt)
n.
1. Either of two North American shrubs (Spiraea alba or S. latifolia) having umbel-shaped clusters of white flowers.
2. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Filipendula in the rose family.
meadowsweet
Noun
a plant with dense heads of small fragrant cream-coloured flowers
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The joy with which he recovered it was pretty to behold, and the eagerness with which he ran through the leaves, to see that the violets and the primroses and a spray of meadowsweet, young love's bookmarkers, were all in their right places, touched my heart.
The Quest of the Golden Girl by le Gallienne, Richard View in context
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