white melilot

American  

noun

1. a Eurasian plant, Melilotus alba, of the legume family, naturalized in the U.S., having white flowers.

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white melilot

Great purple snapdragons hung from clefts in the rocks, inula flashed gorgeously yellow, white melilot raised its graceful drooping blossoms, and hemp-agrimony made the bees sing a drowsy song of the brimming cup of summer.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

I think my heart broke; but I have forgot All but the smell of the white melilot.

From The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Jessie Belle Rittenhouse

Bushes of tall, white melilot, clustered with myriads of tiny flowers, exhale a sweet fragrance into the morning air.

From Some Summer Days in Iowa by Frederick John Lazell

Agrimony, mint, and marjoram, with a tall inula, and the pretty, sweet-scented white melilot, were in great abundance along the bank.

From Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine by Edward Harrison Barker

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