madderwort

Questions about madderwort

What does madderwort mean?

madderwort means "any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae".

How many syllables are in madderwort?

madderwort has 3 syllables: mad-der-wort. The stress falls on "mad".

What is another word for madderwort?

Close synonyms include rubiaceous plant. 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 madderwort a common word?

madderwort 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.