galium Bot.
(ˈgeɪlɪəm)
[a. mod.L. galium, ad. Gr. γάλιον bedstraw 2.]
A genus of plants (family Rubiaceæ): = bedstraw 2.
| 1548–1616 [see galion1]. 1785–94 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xv. 164 Galium has a salver shaped corolla and two roundish seeds. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruv. Bark 142 A little galium by the road-side. |