- Meadow flowers - A name given to several different species of plants having
blue flowers, as the Houstonia coerulea, the Centaurea cyanus or
bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.
- A thin, fragrant, colorless oil, HO.C6H4.CHO, found in
the flowers of meadow sweet (Spiraea), and also obtained by oxidation
of salicin, saligenin, etc. It reddens on exposure. Called also
salicylol, salicylic aldehyde, and formerly salicylous, / spiroylous,
acid.