MADDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does madder mean? 

• MADDER (noun)
  The noun MADDER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: MADDER used as a noun is very rare.

• MADDER (verb)
  The verb MADDER has 1 sense:

1. color a moderate to strong red

  Familiarity information: MADDER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MADDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

madder; Rubia tinctorum

Hypernyms ("madder" is a kind of...):

madderwort; rubiaceous plant (any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae)

Derivation:

madder (color a moderate to strong red)

• MADDER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Color a moderate to strong red

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "madder" is one way to...):

redden (make red)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

I was mad for love of you then, and in all the time that has passed since then I have only grown the madder.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)