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    MADDERWORT

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    madderwort; rubiaceous plant

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("madderwort" is a kind of...):

    angiosperm; flowering plant (plants having seeds in a closed ovary)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "madderwort"):

    Indian madder; munjeet; Rubia cordifolia (perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient)

    madder; Rubia tinctorum (Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin)

    Holonyms ("madderwort" is a member of...):

    family 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 partridgeberry)

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