family Rubiaceae

family Rubiaceae
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: ↑Rubiaceae, ↑madder family
Hypernyms: ↑asterid dicot family
Member Holonyms: ↑Rubiales, ↑order Rubiales
Member Meronyms:

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