dyer's woodruff

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   creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing

   SynonymsAsperula tinctoria

   Broaderwoodruff

Questions about dyer's woodruff

What does dyer's woodruff mean?

dyer's woodruff means "creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing".

What is another word for dyer's woodruff?

Close synonyms include Asperula tinctoria. 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 dyer's woodruff a common word?

dyer's woodruff 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.