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madder

Any of a group of plants bearing small funnel-shaped flowers, especially the perennial vine R. tinctorum which grows in Europe and Asia, the red root of which yields a red dye called alizarin (now made synthetically from coal tar). (Genus Rubia, family Rubiaceae.)



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