madder : Idioms & Phrases


Field madder

  • an annual European weed (Sherardia arvensis) resembling madder.
  • (Bot.), a plant (Sherardia arvensis) used in dyeing.
Webster 1913

Indian madder

  • noun perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient
    Rubia cordifolia; munjeet.
WordNet
  • the East Indian Rubia cordifolia, used in the East for dyeing; called also munjeet.
Webster 1913

Wild madder

  • noun Eurasian herb with ample panicles of small white flowers; naturalized in North America
    Galium mollugo; white madder; false baby's breath; white bedstraw; infant's-breath.
WordNet
  • Rubia peregrina of Europe; also the Galium Mollugo, a kind of bedstraw.
Webster 1913