Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun madder_family

1 sense of madder family

Sense 1
Rubiaceae, family Rubiaceae, madder family -- (widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry)
       => asterid dicot family -- (family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)