meadowrue

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Etymology

From meadow +‎ rue.

Noun

meadowrue (countable and uncountable, plural meadowrues)

  1. A plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum
    • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
      He had a suit of summer mufti, and a broad-brimmed blue beaver hat looped with leaves broken from the hedgerows in the lanes, and a Leander scarf tucked full of flowers: loosestrife, meadowrue, orchis, ragged-robin.

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