rubiaceous

Related to rubiaceous: rubiaceous plant

rubiaceous

(ˌruːbɪˈeɪʃəs) adj (Botany) 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[C19: from New Latin Rubiaceae, from Latin rubia madder, from rubeus red]