DYER'S WOODRUFF

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Meaning:

Creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing

Synonyms:

Asperula tinctoria; dyer's woodruff

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dyer's woodruff" is a kind of...):

woodruff (any plant of the genus Asperula)

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