rubedity (robed it i)

[Irreg. L. rube do, redne (see rube dino us ), + -ity.] Ruddine ; reddishne ; rubiginous coloration. rubefacient (rö-be-fa's hient), a. and n. [ II. n . An application which causes redne or hyperemia of the skin where it is applied, as a mustard plaster. befacient; also, the action of a rubefacient. rubelett (röʻbe-let), n. [As ruby + -let.] A little ruby. About the cover of this book there went A curious-comely, clean compart i ment; And, in the midst, to grace it more, was set A blushing, pretty-peeping rubelet . Herrick, To his Closet-Gods. rubella (rö-bel'ä), n. [NL., fem. of L. rubel lus, reddish, dim. of ruber, red: see ruby.] A usually insignificant contagious disease, with a rose-colored eruption, slight catarrhal symptoms in the mucous membranes of the head and larger air-pa ages of the chest, and usually slight pyrexia and cervical lymphadenitis. The incubation period is from one to three weeks; there is no prodromal period, or it is only for a few hours. The rash, which migrates, lasts in one place not more than half a day, but is present on the body somewhere from two to four days. Rubella protects against second attacks, but not against measles or scarlet fever, with one or the other of which it is sometimes confused. Also called rubeola and German measles. rubel lane (röbel-ān), п. dish (see rubella ), + -ane.] ing a reddish color. rubellite (röʻbel-īt), n. IMG:content-2555.png:[blocks in formation] ing to the tribe Galieæ, distinguished from the closely related and well-known genus Galium, the bedstraw, by flowers with parts in fives instead of fours. It is further characterized by the absence of an involucre from the flowers, by a roundish calyx tube without border, a wheel-shaped corolla, five stamens, a minute disk, and an ovary commonly two-celled and twoovuled, forming a small fleshy twin fruit. There are about 38 species, natives of the Mediterranean region, tropical and temperate Asia, South Africa, and tropical and temperate South America. They are herbs with elongated angled stems, which are commonly rigid or minutely prickly, and with large thickened roots sometimes 3 feet long. They bear whorled lanceolate or obovate leaves, usually four at a node, and small flowers in axillary or terminal cymes, with their pedicels each jointed under the calyx. See madder1 and munjeet. Rubiaceæ (rö-bi-ā'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL., men. plants, containing about 4,500 species of 373 genera and 25 tribes, and surpa ed only by the Compos itæ, Legu minosæ, and Orchideæ. The most important tribes are Cinchoncæ, Naucleæ, Rondel eticæ, Hedyotideæ, Mu ændeæ, Gardenicæ, Ixoreæ, Morindeæ, Psychotricæ, Pæde rice, Spermacoceæ, and Galice. The species are more abundant in America, and are all tropical except two tribes, the Galier of the northern and the Anthospermex of the southern hemisphere. They are trees, shrubs, or herbs, and exhibit great variety of habit, being either erect, prostrate, or climbing, and sometimes thorny, but have remarkable uniformity of leaf-structure, varying from the entire and opposite-leafed type in but very few cases. Stipules are well-nigh universal, and very various, being inter or intra-petiolar, simple or two-cleft or divided, free or united with the petiole, etc.; in the tribe Galicæ resembling the leaves, and with them making out a whorl. The flowers are very often dimorphous or trimorphous in the length of their stamens and pistils; and in some genera they are capitately disposed, giving rise to a syncarpous fruit through the union of their calyxes. genera-as Bouvardia and Gardenia - contain ornamental plants, and several supply important products, Coffea yielding coffee, and Cinchona the cinchona-bark; while Rubia (the type) contains the madder-plant, whence the order is often called the madder family. rubiaceous (rö-bi-a's hi us), a. In bot., belonging to or characteristic of the Rubiaceӕ. rubiacin (rö'bi-a-sin), n. [ Some Rubiales (rö-bi-āʻlēz), n. pl. [NL. (Lindley, 1845), copious fleshy albumen. It includes the two orders Rubi aceæ and Caprifoliaceæ, the madder and honeysuckle families, the former commonly with and the latter without IMG:content-2556.png:[blocks in formation] as dye for the same colors as those given by madder. The tinctorial power of these flocks is due to alizarin. rubianic (rö-bi-an'ik), a. [ rubiate(rö'bi-āt), n. [