(n.) The edible fruit of a West Indian tree (Genipa Americana) of the order Rubiaceae. It is oval in shape, as a large as a small orange, of a pale greenish color, and with dark purple juice.
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Madder
Definition:
(n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.
Example Sentences:
(1) The less than full-throated defence of the cabinet member follows similar comments by White House chief of staff Dennis McDonough on Sunday, who said the president was “madder than hell” about the scandal.
(2) Twenty compounds were isolated from the roots of Rubia tinctorum which are used as a commercial source of madder color.
(3) Tom Madders, head of campaigns at the National Autistic Society, said: "The Department for Work and Pensions is certainly guilty of helping to drive this media narrative around benefits, portraying those who receive benefits as workshy scroungers or abusing a system that's really easy to cheat."
(4) But you put them in a madness asylum they get madder and madder and completely lose their mind, whereas if you work with them, they get better."
(5) You can watch as "the Mad Hatter gets even madder", and throw pepper at the Duchess.
(6) This "scrounger rhetoric" was already having an impact on people's lives, Madders said, citing a woman who rang the charity to say a neighbour who formerly gave lifts to her autistic child had stopped doing so following press articles about disabled people receiving free cars under a government scheme .
(7) President Barack Obama is "madder than hell" about the scandal enveloping the Department of Veterans Affairs, White House chief of staff Denis McDonough said on Sunday.
(8) He's madder than Mad Jack McMad, the winner of last year's Mr Madman Competition!
(9) This will have an impact on cancer detection, as well as causing problems for the management of patients who may have benign diseases, but whose symptoms are significantly impacting on their quality of life and employment.” Labour’s Justin Madders, a shadow health minister and Cheshire MP, said: These plans are a betrayal of the founding principles of the NHS, that access to care should be available to everyone, and also that long waits shouldn’t happen.
(10) On quantitative analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography, the contents of ruberthric acid and lucidin-3-O-primeveroside in commercial madder color were determined 0.07% and 0.04%, respectively.
(11) The president is madder than hell,” McDonough told CBS's Face the Nation.
(12) The Labour MP Justin Madders, chair of the APPG, said social mobility was “shamefully low” at the top of UK society.
(13) We also investigated lucidinethylether, which is formed from lucidin by extraction of madder roots with boiling ethanol.
(14) Labour MP Justin Madders, a shadow health minister, recently outlined his concern about the lack of public attention so far on “Jeremy Hunt’s opaque and secretive reorganisation of the NHS, which is being drawn up behind closed doors at this very moment through sustainability and transformation plans”.
(15) Why do some men – Andrew Neil joked about being "madder than a box of Nadine Dorrieses" – feel able to laugh at her in so unbridled a fashion?
(16) "I don't think they're any madder than Jeremy Paxman or John Humphrys!"
(17) Camp is made in a dune's hollow and we go even madder.
(18) The differential diagnosis of the condition is discussed: especially the hydrolethalus syndrome, and the Young and Madders' syndrome reported in 1987.
(19) Obama – whom a spokesman last week described as “madder than hell” about the VA scandal – was delivering his weekly address on the first day of the long Memorial Day weekend.
(20) Two main coloring constituents in the commercial madder color were isolated and identified as ruberthric acid and lucidin-3-O-primeveroside.