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Noun: Rubiaceae
  1. Widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
    - family Rubiaceae, madder family

Type of: asterid dicot family

Part of: order Rubiales, Rubiales

Encyclopedia: Rubiaceae

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Rubiaceae
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Rubiales
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