(n) widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry, Syn.family Rubiaceae, madder family
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English (GCIDE) v.0.53
n. [ OE. mader, AS. maedere; akin to Icel. maðra. ] (Bot.) A plant of the genus Rubia (Rubia tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous. [ 1913 Webster ]
☞ Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which receive their names from their colors, such as madder yellow. [ 1913 Webster ]
Field madder, an annual European weed (Sherardia arvensis) resembling madder. -- Indian madder , the East Indian Rubia cordifolia, used in the East for dyeing; -- called also munjeet. -- Wild madder, Rubia peregrina of Europe; also the Galium Mollugo, a kind of bedstraw. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. A widely distributed natural family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs including coffee; chinchona; gardenia; madder; bedstraws; nd partridgeberry. Rubiaceae, family Rubiaceae, madder family -- [ WordNet 1.5 ]
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