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Rubia

[ US /ˈɹubiə/ ]
NOUN
  1. type genus of the Rubiaceae; Old World herbs and subshrubs grown for their medicinal properties and for dye substances extracted from their roots

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  • 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 Journal of an Overland Expedition in Australia : from Moreton Bay to Port Essington, a distance of upwards of 3000 miles, during the years 1844-1845
  • This week, oil-and-gas producer Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. and NII Holdings Inc. sold bonds rated in the "junk," or high-yield, category. A Market Resurfaces for 'Junk' Debt
  • 'cleavers' or 'cliver,' and the wild madder (_Rubia pelegrina_), are instances of this -- then there are others which send out simple tendrils from the point of each leaf. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 454 Volume 18, New Series, September 11, 1852
  • But in an underdeveloped country full of tobacco stands and rubiaceous trees INSTITUTE FOR HYDRAULIC RESOURCES
  • The chief arboreous vegetation consists of Rubiaceae, Mimoseae, Cassiaceae (_Bauhinia_), Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
  • At the Casino, beautifully costumed, staged, chorused, in a fair way to becoming what is called an artiste, she is far from that unknown chorus girl, selected by Miguel Covarrubias, who a few summers ago made her Paris debut carried in upside down "à poil," and doing the split. Beth Arnold: Letter from Paris: Josephine Baker Back in Paris (This Time as a Man)
  • 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. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
  • The child and seven others who caught the disease in early April, have since recuperated, according to Ani Rubiani, head of the Depok subagency of environmental health and disease control. The Jakarta Post Breaking News
  • A story that always leaves me in tears is "Leah" by Peter David, Coleen Doran, and Jose Villarrubia, the 6-page silent back-up story from Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man Annual #1 (2007). Six by 6 | Six comics that made us cry | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment
  • We find among rubiaceous plants, besides the cinchonas and exostemas, the Coutarea speciosa or Cayenne bark, the Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
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