rubia tinctorum

1. 1.

   Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin

   Synonymsmadder

   Broadermadderwort

Questions about rubia tinctorum

What does rubia tinctorum mean?

rubia tinctorum means "Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin".

What is another word for rubia tinctorum?

Close synonyms include madder. 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 tinctorum a common word?

rubia tinctorum 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.