Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In botany, belonging to or characteristic of the Rubiaceæ.
Wiktionary
- adj. Of or pertaining to the large and diverse family of flowering plants known as Rubiaceae.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceæ) 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.
Examples
“One of these, Oldenlandia adscensionis (a rubiaceous shrub) has not been seen since 1889, and is probably extinct.”
“But in an underdeveloped country full of tobacco stands and rubiaceous trees”
“We find among rubiaceous plants, besides the cinchonas and exostemas, the Coutarea speciosa or Cayenne bark, the”
“I observed a green belt of trees scarcely 300 yards to the northward; and on riding towards it, I found myself on the banks of a large fresh water river from 500 to 800 yards broad, with not very high banks, densely covered with salt water Hibiscus (Paritium), with a small rubiaceous tree”
“We find among rubiaceous plants, besides the cinchonas and exostemas, the”
“This, however, is unfounded; since it is precisely by the disposition of the leaves, and the absence of stipules, that the cuspa differs totally from the trees of the rubiaceous family.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘rubiaceous’.
-
Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
-
Words describing beauty
Words associated with beauty, love, and a happy feeling!
whimsical, amatory, amorous, paradisiacal, calliope, callitriche, Callimachus, callinectes, calliphora, seraphic, calliopsis, callirhoe and 27 more...
-
bark
liminal space forms
cinnamon, sycamore, ponderosa, Leucadendron arge..., cork, cinchona, angostura, barque, sassafras, arf, yip, quebracho and 94 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for rubiaceous.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.