Usually means: Plant used for red dye.
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General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. madder: Merriam-Webster
  2. madder: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. madder: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. madder: Collins English Dictionary
  5. madder: Vocabulary.com
  6. Madder, madder: Wordnik
  7. madder: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. madder: Wiktionary
  9. madder: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. madder: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. madder: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. madder: Dictionary.com
  13. madder (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. madder: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Madder (disambiguation), Madder: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Madder: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. madder: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. madder: Rhymezone
  19. Madder: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. madder: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. madder: FreeDictionary.org
  22. madder: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. madder: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. madder: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

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  1. madder: Legal dictionary
  2. madder: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. madder: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. madder: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. madder: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. madder: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. madder: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (madder)

noun:  A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
noun:  The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
noun:  A dye made from the plant.
noun:  A deep reddish colour, like that of the dye.
adjective:  Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To dye with madder.
noun:  Obsolete form of mether. [(historical, Ireland) A communal drinking vessel used in Gaelic times for drinking mead. It had squared sides and one drank from a corner. Also, a trophy in this shape.]
verb:  Eye dialect spelling of matter. [(intransitive, stative) To be important.]

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