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Meadowsweet is known by many other names. In [[Chaucer]]'s ''The Knight's Tale'' it is known as meadwort and was one of the ingredients in a drink called "save". <ref name = "Mount">Mount T. 2015. ''Dragon Blood & Willow Bark. The Mysteries of Medieval Medicine''. Amberley Publishing Limited {{ISBN|1-44-564383-9}} </ref> It was also known as bridewort, because it was strewn in churches for festivals and weddings, and often made into bridal garlands. In Europe, it took its name "queen of the meadow" for the way it can dominate a low-lying, damp meadow.
The [[specific epithet]] '''ulmaria''' means "elmlike", possibly in reference to its individual leaves which resemble those of the [[elm]] (''Ulmus''). The generic name, ''Filipendula'', comes from ''filum'', meaning "thread" and ''pendulus'', meaning "hanging". This is said to describe the slender attachment of root tubers,
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