madder family

Thesaurus

Noun

1.madder family - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberryfamily Rubiaceae, Rubiaceaeasterid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubsorder Rubiales, Rubiales - an order of dicotyledonous plants of the subclass Asteridae; have opposite leaves and an inferior compound ovarymadderwort, rubiaceous plant - any of numerous trees or shrubs or vines of the family Rubiaceaegenus Rubia, Rubia - type genus of the Rubiaceae; Old World herbs and subshrubs grown for their medicinal properties and for dye substances extracted from their rootsAsperula, genus Asperula - woodruffCalycophyllum, genus Calycophyllum - medium to large tropical American trees having shiny reddish-brown shredding barkChiococca, genus Chiococca - shrubs of tropical and subtropical New WorldCoffea, genus Coffea - coffee treesgenus Chinchona, genus Cinchona - large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal barkGalium, genus Galium - annual or perennial herbs: bedstraw; cleaversgenus Gardenia - large genus of attractive Old World tropical shrubs and small treesgenus Genipa - tropical American evergreen trees or shrubs bearing yellow flowers and succulent edible fruit with a thick rindgenus Hamelia - evergreen tropical American shrubs or small treesgenus Mitchella, Mitchella - creeping evergreen herbs of North Americagenus Nauclea, Nauclea - small genus of evergreen tropical shrubs or trees with smooth leathery leavesgenus Pinckneya, Pinckneya - small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South Americagenus Psychotria, Psychotria - tropical chiefly South American shrubs and treesgenus Sarcocephalus, Sarcocephalus - genus of tropical African trees and shrubsgenus Vangueria, Vangueria - tropical African and Asiatic trees and shrubs having one-seeded fruit