of, relating to, or belonging to the Rubiaceae, a widely distributed family of trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants that includes the coffee and cinchona trees, gardenia, madder, and bedstraws
Word origin
C19: from New Latin Rubiaceae, from Latin rubia madder, from rubeus red
Examples of 'rubiaceous' in a sentence
rubiaceous
Both species showed similarities, such as one-layered epidermis and rubiaceous type stomata.
Isabel Carmona Gallego, Jhon Steven Murillo Serna, Edgar Javier Rincón Barón, FernandoAlveiro Alzate Guarín 2018, 'Comparative Leaf Anatomy of Gaiadendron punctatum and Tripodanthus belmirensis(Loranthaceae)', Acta Biológica Colombianahttps://revistas.unal.edu.co/index.php/actabiol/article/view/66598. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)