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dyer's rocket
noun
A European plant used to make a yellow dye, weld,
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Ragwort, thistle, sorrel, dock, and goosefoot do their best, and do it very well, to convert waste places into interesting and even beautiful botanic gardens, and a fine weed with long graceful spikes of yellowish-green flowers has joined them in the Northwich salt area; dyer's rocket, a wild mignonette, is now exceedingly fine on some of the most uninviting tips of chemical waste.
Limited evidence suggests the use of weld (Reseda luteola), also called mignonette or dyer's rocket before the Iron Age, but it was an important dye of the ancient Mediterranean and Europe and is indigenous to England.
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Here's a wonder!" DANIEL DYER Hudson, Ohio.
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