alizarin red

1. 1.

   any of various acid dyes; used for dyeing wool scarlet red

   Synonymsalizarin carminealizarin crimson

   Broaderalizarin

Questions about alizarin red

What does alizarin red mean?

alizarin red means "any of various acid dyes; used for dyeing wool scarlet red".

What is another word for alizarin red?

Close synonyms include alizarin carmine, alizarin crimson. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is alizarin red a common word?

alizarin red is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.