1. Widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
   - Rubiaceae, madder family

Type of: asterid dicot family

Part of: order Rubiales, Rubiales

• thoracic vertebra
• thoracocentesis
• thoracoepigastric vein
• thoracotomy
• thorax
• Thorazine
• Thoreau
• Thoreauvian
• thoria
• thoriate
• thoriated
• thorite
• thorium
• thorium-228
• thorn
• thorn apple
• thorn-tipped
• thornback
• thornbill
• Thorndike
• thorniness
• thornless
• Thornton
• Thornton Niven Wilder
• Thornton Wilder