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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 Rubiaceae
 茜草科

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ru·bi·a·ceous a.  Bot. Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) named after the madder (Rubia tinctoria), and including about three hundred and seventy genera and over four thousand species. Among them are the coffee tree, the trees yielding peruvian bark and quinine, the madder, the quaker ladies, and the trees bearing the edible fruits called genipap and Sierre Leone peach, besides many plants noted for the beauty or the fragrance of their blossoms.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Rubiaceae
      n : widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and
          shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and
          gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
          [syn: family Rubiaceae, madder family]