rubia cordifolia

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

   SynonymsIndian maddermunjeet

   Broadermadderwort

   Part ofRubia

Questions about rubia cordifolia

What does rubia cordifolia mean?

rubia cordifolia means "perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient".

What is another word for rubia cordifolia?

Close synonyms include Indian madder, munjeet. 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 rubia cordifolia a common word?

rubia cordifolia 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.