noun
- a plant of the rose family with white flowers and tuberous roots, found in grasslands
Usage: botanical
Examples
- Dropwort grows naturally in chalk grasslands across Europe.
- The botanist identified the small white flowers as belonging to dropwort.
- Dropwort’s tuberous roots help it survive in dry conditions.
- The meadow was dotted with dropwort and other wildflowers.
- Dropwort is sometimes called meadowsweet, though they are different species.