English > family Rubiaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry. |
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| Synonyms | Rubiaceae, madder family |
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| Member of | Rubiales, order Rubiales | An order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae |
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| Members | Asperula, genus Asperula | woodruff |
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| Calycophyllum, genus Calycophyllum | Medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding bark |
| Chiococca, genus Chiococca | shrubs of tropical and subtropical New World |
| Coffea, genus Coffea | coffee trees |
| Galium, genus Galium | Annual or perennial herbs |
| Mitchella, genus Mitchella | Creeping evergreen herbs of North America |
| Nauclea, genus Nauclea | small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves |
| Pinckneya, genus Pinckneya | small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America |
| Psychotria, genus Psychotria | Tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees |
| Rubia, genus Rubia | type genus of the Rubiaceae |
| Sarcocephalus, genus Sarcocephalus | genus of tropical African trees and shrubs |
| Vangueria, genus Vangueria | Tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit |
| genus Cinchona, genus Chinchona | large genus of trees of Andean region / region of South America having medicinal bark |
| genus Gardenia | large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees |
| genus Genipa | Tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rind |
| genus Hamelia | evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees |
| madderwort, rubiaceous plant | Any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae |
| Broader | asterid dicot family | family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
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| Spanish | rubiáceas |
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| Catalan | Rubiaceae, rubiàcia, rubiàcies |
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