wood|ruff

wood|ruff
wood|ruff «WUD ruhf», noun.
a low-growing herb of the madder family, with clusters of small white, pink, or bluish flowers and whorls of sweet-scented leaves.
[Old English wudurofe < wudu wood + -rofe, meaning unknown]

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