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Galium aparine   Listen
Galium aparine

noun
1.
Annual having the stem beset with curved prickles; North America and Europe and Asia.  Synonyms: catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose grass, spring cleavers.






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"Galium aparine" Quotes from Famous Books



... shoots are generally long and flexible. It may, however, be suspected from what follows, that these shoots in some cases tend to avoid the light. The few hook- climbers which I have observed, namely, Galium aparine, Rubus australis, and some climbing Roses, exhibit no spontaneous revolving movement. If they had possessed this power, and had been capable of twining, they would have been placed in the class of Twiners; for ...
— The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants • Charles Darwin



Words linked to "Galium aparine" :   clivers, bedstraw, cleavers



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