different between madder vs buttonbush

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?mæd?(?)/, [?mad?(?)]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?mæd??/, [?mæ???]
• Rhymes: -æd?(?)

Etymology 1

From Middle English mader, madere, mædere, from Old English mædere, mæddre, mædre, from Proto-Germanic *madar? (compare Swedish madra, Old Norse / Icelandic maðra), from Proto-Indo-European *mod?ro-, cognate with Proto-Slavic *modr? (“blue”), and compare Irish madar (“madder”), Latvian madara (“madder”).

Noun

madder (countable and uncountable, plural madders)

1. A herbaceous plant, Rubia tinctorum, native to Asia, cultivated for a red-purple dye (alizarin) obtained from the root.
2. The root of the plant, used as a medicine or a dye.
3. A dye made from the plant.
4. A deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Synonyms

• (Rubia tinctorum): common madder, dyer's madder

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

madder (not comparable)

1. Of a deep reddish purple colour, like that of the dye.

Translations

See also

• bedstraw
• bluet
• genipap
• Appendix:Colors

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Adjective

madder

1. comparative form of mad: more mad

Etymology 3

From mead

Noun

madder (plural madders)

1. Obsolete form of mether.
   • c.1720 Jonathan Swift (translation from the Irish) "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

• MedDRA, dermad, dream'd, marded

Middle English

Adjective

madder

1. comparative degree of mad

English

Etymology

button +? bush

Noun

buttonbush (plural buttonbushes)

1. Any of the genus Cephalanthus of flowering plants in the madder family.
   1. (US) Cephalanthus occidentalis, the common buttonbush
2. Any of the genus Conocarpus of two species of tropical flowering plants; a mangrove.

Hyponyms

• (Cephalanthus): common buttonbush, Mexican buttonbush

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Further reading

• Cephalanthus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Conocarpus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cephalanthus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Conocarpus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• buttonbush at USDA Plants database as Cephalanthus
• buttonbush at USDA Plants database as Conocarpus