Definition of Galium verum

1. Noun. Common yellow-flowered perennial bedstraw; North America and Europe and Asia.

Exact synonyms: Our Lady's Bedstraw, Yellow Bedstraw, Yellow Cleavers
Generic synonyms: Bedstraw

Lexicographical Neighbors of Galium Verum

Galilean satellites
Galilean telescope
Galileans
Galilee
Galileo
Galileo Galilei
Galina
Galina Sergeevna Ulanova
Galina Ulanova
Galium
Galium aparine
Galium boreale
Galium lanceolatum
Galium mollugo
Galium odoratum
Galium verum
Galiza
Galizan
Gall's craniology
Gallant Fox
Gallaudet
Gallavardin
Gallavardin's phenomenon
Gallegan
Gallegans
Gallego's differentiating solution
Galleria
Galleria mellonella
Gallia
Gallian

Literary usage of Galium verum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"Milne and Gordon (Indigenous Botany, 1793) call galium verum, L., ... A legend connecting galium verum with the Nativity will be found in the Athenaeum of ..."

2. The Larvæ of the British Butterflies and Moths by William Buckler (1887)
"Mr. Buckler figured a larva July 29th, 1861, food galium verum and mollugo ; a gi'een larva on galium verum and palustre August 2nd, 1866; and one on Galium ..."

3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1898)
"galium verum L. Lady's Bedstraw. Yellow Bedstraw. (Fig. ... galium verum L. Sp. PI. 1o7. 1753. Perennial from a somewhat woody base, erect or ascending, ..."

4. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"A legend connecting galium verum with the Nativity will be found in the Athenaeum of April 4, 1868. ..."

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