\Mead"ow*sweet`\, Meadowwort \Mead"ow*wort`\, n.
(Bot.)
The name of several plants of the genus {Spir[ae]a},
especially the white- or pink-flowered {S. salicifolia}, a
low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous {S.
Ulmaria}, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.