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nounEurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin
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verbcolor a moderate to strong redtype of:
Definition that contains madder
- dyer's woodruff creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing
- 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
- madder family widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
- asperula tinctoria creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing
- rubiaceae widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry