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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Example Sentences

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 Lazell, Frederick John

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 Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

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 Barker, Edward Harrison

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 Barker, Edward Harrison