Madder vs Bluet - What's the difference?
madder | bluet |
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) "
Any of several different species of plants having blue flowers.
* 1913 , Robert Frost, 'The Vantage Point':
* 1969 , Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor , Penguin 2011, p. 232:
As nouns the difference between madder and bluet
is that madder is a herbaceous plant, species: Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye obtained from the root while bluet is any of several different species of plants having blue flowers.As an adjective madder
is of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.madder
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
Anagrams
*bluet
English
Noun
(en noun)- My breathing shakes the bluet like a breeze [...].
- They passed undulating fields of wheat speckled with the confetti of poppies and bluets .