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munjeet

munjeet noun: the plant Rubia cordifolia, or Indian madder; the dye extracted from the plant.

munjeet: the plant Rubia cordifolia, or Indian madder; the dye extracted from the plant
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Noun

munjeet (usually uncountable, plural munjeets)

  1. (usually) The plant Rubia cordifolia, or Indian madder; the dye extracted from the plant.
    • The colour of all is red; that of munjeet being a yellow, or orange red, that of the lac a bluish or crimson red, and that of the Bignonia a brown red.1831, Appendix I: Dying Drugs from South America: Transactions of the Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, volume XLVIII, page 190
    • The stalks of the munjeet are very dry, light, and porous; the fracture exhibits a congeries of empty tubes. The powdered munjeet is composed of the thin and thick stalks mixed.1853, James Napier, Chemistry Applied to Dyeing, page 389

munjeet meaning in Tamil and Sanskrit

munjeet in Tamil

மஞ்சிட்டி என்ற நீர்ப்பூடு, மஞ்சட்டி

munjeet in Sanskrit

munjeet
ताम्रपर्णी tāmraparṇī

Forms of munjeet

pluralmunjeets
alternative formmungeet

Origin of munjeet

Borrowed from Hindi मंजीठ (mañjīṭh), an alternative form of मजीठ (majīṭh), in turn derived from Sauraseni Prakrit 𑀫𑀁𑀚𑀺𑀝𑁆𑀞𑀸 (maṃjiṭṭhā), ultimately derived from Sanskrit मञ्जिष्ठा f (mañjiṣṭhā).

Questions about munjeet

What does munjeet mean?
Munjeet means the plant Rubia cordifolia, or Indian madder; the dye extracted from the plant.
What is munjeet in Tamil?
Munjeet in Tamil is மஞ்சிட்டி என்ற நீர்ப்பூடு, மஞ்சட்டி. See Munjeet meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is munjeet?
Munjeet is a noun.
What is the plural of munjeet?
The plural of munjeet is munjeets.

Words near munjeet in the dictionary

  1. Munizes
  2. munj
  3. munja
  4. munjac
  5. munjack
  6. munjeet
  7. munjeets
  8. munjen
  9. munjens
  10. Munji
  11. munjistin

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Adapted from Wiktionary: munjeet (page history and authors); munjeet (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ताम्रपर्णी (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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