noun
widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
• Syn: ↑family Rubiaceae, ↑madder family
• Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Rubiales, ↑order Rubiales
• Member Meronyms:
↑madderwort, ↑rubiaceous plant, ↑Rubia, ↑genus Rubia, ↑Asperula, ↑genus Asperula, ↑Calycophyllum, ↑genus Calycophyllum, ↑Chiococca, ↑genus Chiococca, ↑Coffea, ↑genus Coffea, ↑genus Cinchona, ↑genus Chinchona, ↑Galium, ↑genus Galium, ↑genus Gardenia, ↑genus Genipa, ↑genus Hamelia, ↑Mitchella, ↑genus Mitchella, ↑Nauclea, ↑genus Nauclea, ↑Pinckneya, ↑genus Pinckneya, ↑Psychotria, ↑genus Psychotria, ↑Sarcocephalus, ↑genus Sarcocephalus, ↑Vangueria, ↑genus Vangueria
Useful english dictionary. 2012.