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Buttonweed :: Buttonweed (n.) The name of several plants of the genera Spermacoce and Diodia, of the Madder family..

Ruberythrinic :: Ruberythrinic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained..

Munjeet :: Munjeet (n.) See Indian madder, under Madder..

Rubiaceous :: Rubiaceous (a.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms..

Rubiretin :: Rubiretin (n.) One of the red dye products extracted from madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid..

Lake :: Lake (n.) A pigment formed by combining some coloring matter, usually by precipitation, with a metallic oxide or earth, esp. with aluminium hydrate; as, madder lake; Florentine lake; yellow lake, etc..

Munjistin :: Munjistin (n.) An orange-red coloring substance resembling alizarin, found in the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia munjista)..

Purpurin :: Purpurin (n.) A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance..

Garancin :: Garancin (n.) An extract of madder by sulphuric acid. It consists essentially of alizarin.

Madderwort :: Madderwort (n.) A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder.

Erythrozyme :: Erythrozyme (n.) A ferment extracted from madder root, possessing the power of inducing alcoholic fermentation in solutions of sugar..

Rubian :: Rubian (n.) One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.

Mather :: Mather (n.) See Madder.

Alizari :: Alizari (n.) The madder of the Levant.

Madder :: Madder (n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous..

Rubiacin :: Rubiacin (n.) A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid..

Mull :: Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

Alizarin :: Alizarin (n.) A coloring principle, C14H6O2(OH)2, found in madder, and now produced artificially from anthracene. It produces the Turkish reds..

Warence :: Warence (n.) Madder.

Xanthin :: Xanthin (n.) A yellow insoluble coloring matter extracted from yellow flowers; specifically, the coloring matter of madder..

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