RubiaceaeWordNet Explorer

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

family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs

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

any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceae

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

woodruff

medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding bark

shrubs of tropical and subtropical New World