madder's Usage Examples:

Perkin also had a large share in the introduction of artificial alizarin, the red dye of the madder root.

Of plants used for dyeing, the principal are bastard saffron, madder, woad and the indigo plant.

The crops principally raised are wheat and maize, though here, as well as in other parts of the government, barley, flax, tobacco, water-melons, gourds, fruit, wine, saffron and madder are grown.

The general agricultural products of the country are wheat, barley, pulse, fruit, madder, asafoetida, lucerne, clover and tobacco.

Wheat, maize, rice, oil, flax and hemp, of fine quality, are grown in considerable quantities; as well as saffron, madder, liquorice, sumach, and a variety of fruits.

Sumach, liquorice and madder are also grown in the south.

Woad >>Of plants used for dyeing, the principal are bastard saffron, madder, woad and the indigo plant.

A large quantity of wool, together with silk, dried fruit, madder and asafetida, finds its way to India by the Kandahar route.

He was madder than she was to think killing someone would save them!The level country, including both Lower Bavaria (extending northwards to the Danube) and the western and middle parts of Franconia, is productive of rye, oats, wheat, barley and millet, and also of hemp, flax, madder and fruit and vines.

The exports are wool, cotton, madder, cummin seed, asafoetida, fruit, silk and horses.

There was a Brazilian woman who mainly used her allotment to grow plants to dye cloth: woad, madder and dyer's chamomile.

2], C]] a vegetable dyestuff formerly prepared from madder root (Rubia tinctorum) which contains a glucoside ruberythric acid (C26H28014).

Synonyms:

Rubia tinctorum, rubiaceous plant, madderwort,

Antonyms:

discolor,