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RUBIACEOUS PLANT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae
Synonyms:
madderwort; rubiaceous plant
Classified under:
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)
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