Found 2 items, similar to Wild madder.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: wild madder
wild madder
n : Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers;
naturalized in North America [syn:
white madder,
white bedstraw
,
infant's-breath,
false baby's breath,
Galium mollugo
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Wild madder
Madder
\Mad"der\ (m[a^]d"d[~e]r), n. [OE. mader, AS. m[ae]dere;
akin to Icel. ma[eth]ra.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus
Rubia (
Rubia tinctorum). The root is
much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine.
It is cultivated in France and Holland. See
Rubiaceous.
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Note: Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes,
etc., which receive their names from their colors, such
as
madder yellow.
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Field madder, an annual European weed (
Sherardia arvensis
) resembling madder.
Indian madder, the East Indian
Rubia cordifolia, used in
the East for dyeing; -- called also
munjeet.
Wild madder,
Rubia peregrina of Europe; also the
Galium Mollugo
, a kind of bedstraw.
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