Bedstraw vs Madder - What's the difference?
bedstraw | madder |
any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers
(obsolete) straw put into a bed
A herbaceous plant, , native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root.
The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
A dye made from the plant.
A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.
(mad)
* c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "
As nouns the difference between bedstraw and madder
is that bedstraw is any plant of herb genus Galium of the madder family with small pointed leaves and hairy stems with small, white or yellow flowers while madder is a herbaceous plant, species: Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root.As an adjective madder is
of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.bedstraw
English
Noun
- (Francis Bacon)
Derived terms
* Our Lady's bedstraw * white bedstrawmadder
English
(wikipedia madder)Etymology 1
(etyl) , from Germanic, perhaps from an Indo-European base meaning "blue." Cognate with (etyl) madra.Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (Rubia tinctorum) common madder, dyer's madderDerived terms
* (field madder) * Indian madder * madder yellow * rose madder * wild madderAdjective
(-)See also
* bedstraw * bluets * genipap *Etymology 2
Inflected forms.Adjective
(head)Etymology 3
From meadNoun
(en noun)O'Rourke's Feast":
- Usequebaugh to our feast - In pails was brought up,
- A hundred at least, - And the madder our cup,
- O there is the sport!
References
* Tenison, Thomas Joseph (1860)"On Methers and Other Ancient Drinking Vessels"Journal of the Kilkenny and South-East of Ireland Archaeological Society Vol.3NS No.1 p.54