Madderwort

Mad´der`wort`

n.

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(Bot.) A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceæ) as the madder.

Thesaurus

Noun

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madderwort - any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae rubiaceous plant angiosperm, flowering plant - plants having seeds in a closed ovary family Rubiaceae, madder family, Rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry Indian madder, munjeet, Rubia cordifolia - perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient madder, Rubia tinctorum - Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin