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    RUBIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    genus Rubia; Rubia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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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