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Definition of Rubiaceae
1. Noun. Widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Family
Group relationships: Order Rubiales, Rubiales
Member holonyms: Madderwort, Rubiaceous Plant, Genus Rubia, Rubia, Asperula, Genus Asperula, Calycophyllum, Genus Calycophyllum, Chiococca, Genus Chiococca, Coffea, Genus Coffea, Genus Chinchona, Genus Cinchona, Galium, Genus Galium, Genus Gardenia, Genus Genipa, Genus Hamelia, Genus Mitchella, Mitchella, Genus Nauclea, Nauclea, Genus Pinckneya, Pinckneya, Genus Psychotria, Psychotria, Genus Sarcocephalus, Sarcocephalus, Genus Vangueria, Vangueria
Medical Definition of Rubiaceae
1. The rubiaceae are asteridae with opposite leaves and interpetiolar stipules. Important genera include the cinchona and coffea. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rubiaceae
Literary usage of Rubiaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Clinical Materia Medica: Being a Course of Lectures Delivered at the by Ernest Albert Farrington (1887)
"rubiaceae. Rubin tinctoria. (Madder). Galium. (Also a red dye). Cinchona. .
rubiaceae. •{ Ipecacuanha. ..."
2. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"... rubiaceae. Madder Family. OLDENLANDIA L. Sp. 14.1:119. 1753. About 175 species,
annual and ... rubiaceae ..."
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