madderwort

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1.madderwort - any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceaerubiaceous plantangiosperm, flowering plant - plants having seeds in a closed ovaryfamily 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 partridgeberryIndian madder, munjeet, Rubia cordifolia - perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orientmadder, Rubia tinctorum - Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin