Meadowsweet

{ Mead″ow‐sweet′ (?), Mead″ow‐wort′ (?), } n.(Bot.) The name of several plants of the genus Spiræa, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.