different between meadwort vs meadowsweet

English

Alternative forms

• medæwart [16th c.]

Etymology

From Middle English medewort, from Old English medewyrt, medowyrt, corresponding to mead +? wort. Cognate with Norwegian mjødurt, Danish mjødurt.

Noun

meadwort (uncountable)

1. (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.

Anagrams

• damewort, metaword, to meward, two-armed, wardmote

English

Etymology

Corruption of mead sweet, from use in making mead.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?d??swi?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?m?do??swit/

Noun

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.

Synonyms

• (Filipendula ulmaria): queen of the meadow, pride of the meadow, meadowwort, meadwort, meadow queen, lady of the meadow, dollof, meadsweet, bridewort

Derived terms

• white meadowseet

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