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FAMILY MYRSINACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does family Myrsinaceae mean?
• FAMILY MYRSINACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY MYRSINACEAE has 1 sense:
1. family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida
Familiarity information: FAMILY MYRSINACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Myrsinaceae; Myrsinaceae; myrsine family
Hypernyms ("family Myrsinaceae" 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 "family Myrsinaceae"):
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 ("family Myrsinaceae" is a member of...):
order Primulales; Primulales (Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae)
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