A herbaceous scrambling plant, Rubia tinctorum (family Rubiaceae), having rough hairy stems, rough whorled leaves, and panicles of small…
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| 释义 | the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > plants used in dyeing > [noun] > madder (8) maddereOE A herbaceous scrambling plant, Rubia tinctorum (family Rubiaceae), having rough hairy stems, rough whorled leaves, and panicles of small… red madder?a1425 (a) the plant madder, Rubia tinctorum; (also) the reddish-purple dye obtained from the roots of this plant; †(b) any of several kinds of birthwort… warence1526 = madder, n. rubee?a1547 The madder plant, Rubia tinctorum. umber-owea1661 a kind of madder. madder plant1758 alizari1769 The root of the either of two plants of the genus Rubia used to produce the red dye madder, wild madder, R. peregrina, and common madder, R. tinctoria… munjeet1813 The roots of Bengal madder (Rubia cordifolia) or, occasionally, of certain other Indian plants, used as the source of a red dye; (also) the… |
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