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sweet woodruff noun[ U ] uk /ˌswiːt ˈwʊd.rʌf/ us /ˌswiːt ˈwʊd.rəf/(also woodruff) a low-growing plant with small, white flowers and leaves with a sweet smell, that is sometimes used in cooking: Under the trees on the right grow sweet woodruff and ferns. Sweet woodruff has a refreshing taste all of its own. Sweet woodruff loves shade and is pretty much indestructible. Dappled light filtered through the canopy to touch the delicate white stars of sweet woodruff. Woodruff has a nutty, vanilla taste that is suitable for dessert dishes. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Flowers & flowering plants aconite adam-and-eve aeonium African daisy agapanthus edelweiss eglantine elderflower elephant ear erythronium locoweed loosestrife lords-and-ladies lotus love-in-a-mist sea pink sedum sego lily self-heal senecio |