Meanings
nounmeadowrue (countable and uncountable, plural meadowrues)
plural meadowrues · alternative meadow-rue · alternative meadow rue
- countableuncountableA plant (any plant of genus Thalictrum), also known as thalictrum
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.
1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 91
Origin
Translations
Czech žluťucha
- žluťuchaplant
French pigamon
- pigamonplant
German Wiesenraute
- Wiesenrauteplant
Italian pigamo, talittro
- pigamoplant
- talittroplant
Polish rutewka
- rutewkaplant
Romanian rutișor-galben, rutișor
- rutișor-galbenplant
- rutișorplant
Turkish çayır sedefi
- çayır sedefiplant
Welsh arianllys
- arianllysplant
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