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MYRSINE FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida
Synonyms:
family Myrsinaceae; Myrsinaceae; myrsine family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("myrsine family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "myrsine family"):
genus Myrsine; Myrsine (evergreen trees and shrubs having aromatic foliage; Africa; Asia (New Zealand))
Ardisia; genus Ardisia (tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas)
Holonyms ("myrsine family" is a member of...):
order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)
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