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Rubiaceae
Definition of Rubiaceae
: a family of mostly tropical herbs, shrubs, and trees (order Rubiales) of very diverse habits having opposite stipulate leaves and regular flowers with the stamens borne on the corolla tube and a 1- to 10-celled ovary usually with numerous ovules that becomes in fruit a capsule, a berry, or one or more distinct nutlets
rubiaceous
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Origin and Etymology of rubiaceae
New Latin, from Rubia, type genus + -aceae
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