Vocabulary : Rubella to Rubian

Rubella : An acute specific disease with a dusky red cutaneous eruption resembling that of measles, but unattended by catarrhal symptoms; -- called also German measles.
Rubelle : A red color used in enameling.
Rubellite : A variety of tourmaline varying in color from a pale rose to a deep ruby, and containing lithium.
Rubeola : the measles. ;; Rubella.
Ruberythrinic : Pertaining to, or designating, an acid extracted from madder root. It is a yellow crystalline substance from which alizarin is obtained.

Rubescence : The quality or state of being rubescent; a reddening; a flush.
Rubescent : Growing or becoming red; tending to redness.
Rubiaceous : Of or pertaining to a very large natural order of plants (Rubiaceae) 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.
Rubiacin : A substance found in madder root, and probably identical with ruberythrinic acid.
Rubian : One of several color-producing glycosides found in madder root.

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