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Noun: madder family
  1. Widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
    - Rubiaceae, family Rubiaceae

Type of: asterid dicot family

Part of: order Rubiales, Rubiales

Encyclopedia: Madder family

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Madame de Pompadour
Madame de Stael
Madame du Barry
Madame Tussaud
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mad-dog skullcap
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Madeira
Madeira cake
Madeira Islands
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