RUBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rubia mean? 

• RUBIA (noun)
  The noun RUBIA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: RUBIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RUBIA (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 roots

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Rubia; Rubia

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)