RUBIACEOUS PLANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rubiaceous plant mean? 

• RUBIACEOUS PLANT (noun)
  The noun RUBIACEOUS PLANT has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae

  Familiarity information: RUBIACEOUS PLANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBIACEOUS PLANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

madderwort; rubiaceous plant

Hypernyms ("rubiaceous plant" is a kind of...):

angiosperm; flowering plant (plants having seeds in a closed ovary)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rubiaceous plant"):

Indian madder; munjeet; Rubia cordifolia (perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient)

madder; Rubia tinctorum (Eurasian herb having small yellow flowers and red roots formerly an important source of the dye alizarin)

Holonyms ("rubiaceous plant" is a member of...):

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)