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madder family
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun madder family has 1 sense
- madder family(n = noun.plant) family rubiaceae, rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry; Array is a kind of asterid dicot family
is a member of order rubiales, rubiales
CIDE DICTIONARY
madder family, n.
A widely distributed natural family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs including coffee; chinchona; gardenia; madder; bedstraws; nd partridgeberry. [WordNet 1.5]
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