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Madwort vs Meadwort - What's the difference?

madwort | meadwort |

As nouns the difference between madwort and meadwort

is that madwort is certain of the alyssums while meadwort is meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.

madwort

English

(wikipedia madwort)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Certain of the alyssums.
  • (German madwort) ()

    • Derived terms

    * (American madwort) () * (German madwort) () * (goldentuft madwort) (rock madwort) () * (pale madwort) () * (roadside false madwort) () * (rock madwort) () * (vern, Szowits' madwort) ()

    meadwort

    English

    Alternative forms

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    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) Meadowsweet, a plant found near rivers or on damp ground.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.viii:
    • The metall first he mixt with Medæwart , / That no enchauntment from his dint might saue; / That it in flames of Aetna wrought apart, / And seuen times dipped in the bitter waue / Of hellish Styx, which hidden vertue to it gaue.

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