RUBIACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rubiaceae mean? 

• RUBIACEAE (noun)
  The noun RUBIACEAE has 1 sense:

1. widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry

  Familiarity information: RUBIACEAE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBIACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Rubiaceae; madder family; Rubiaceae

Hypernyms ("Rubiaceae" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot family (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "Rubiaceae"):

Galium; genus Galium (annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleavers)

genus Vangueria; Vangueria (tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit)

genus Sarcocephalus; Sarcocephalus (genus of tropical African trees and shrubs)

genus Psychotria; Psychotria (tropical chiefly South American shrubs and trees)

genus Pinckneya; Pinckneya (small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America)

genus Nauclea; Nauclea (small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leaves)

genus Mitchella; Mitchella (creeping evergreen herbs of North America)

genus Hamelia (evergreen tropical American shrubs or small trees)

genus Genipa (tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rind)

genus Gardenia (large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small trees)

genus Chinchona; genus Cinchona (large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark)

Coffea; genus Coffea (coffee trees)

Chiococca; genus Chiococca (shrubs of tropical and subtropical New World)

Calycophyllum; genus Calycophyllum (medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding bark)

Asperula; genus Asperula (woodruff)

genus Rubia; Rubia (type genus of the Rubiaceae; Old World herbs and subshrubs grown for their medicinal properties and for dye substances extracted from their roots)

madderwort; rubiaceous plant (any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae)

Holonyms ("Rubiaceae" is a member of...):

order Rubiales; Rubiales (an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovary)

 Context examples 

A shrub or small tree in the family Rubiaceae.

(Morinda citrifolia, NCI Thesaurus)