INDIAN MADDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian madder mean? 

• INDIAN MADDER (noun)
  The noun INDIAN MADDER has 1 sense:

1. perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient

  Familiarity information: INDIAN MADDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAN MADDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Indian madder; munjeet; Rubia cordifolia

Hypernyms ("Indian madder" is a kind of...):

madderwort; rubiaceous plant (any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae)

Holonyms ("Indian madder" is a member of...):

genus Rubia; Rubia (type genus of the Rubiaceae; Old World herbs and subshrubs grown for their medicinal properties and for dye substances extracted from their roots)