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RUBIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Rubiaceae; Old World herbs and subshrubs grown for their medicinal properties and for dye substances extracted from their roots
Synonyms:
genus Rubia; Rubia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Rubia" is a kind of...):
asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)
Meronyms (members of "Rubia"):
Indian madder; munjeet; Rubia cordifolia (perennial East Indian creeping or climbing herb used for dye in the orient)
Holonyms ("Rubia" 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)
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