MYRCIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Myrcia mean? 

• MYRCIA (noun)
  The noun MYRCIA has 1 sense:

1. a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family

  Familiarity information: MYRCIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYRCIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle family

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Myrciaria; Myrcia; Myrciaria

Hypernyms ("Myrcia" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Myrcia"):

jaboticaba; jaboticaba tree; Myrciaria cauliflora (small evergreen tropical tree native to Brazil and West Indies but introduced into southern United States; grown in Brazil for its edible tough-skinned purple grapelike fruit that grows all along the branches)

Holonyms ("Myrcia" is a member of...):

family Myrtaceae; Myrtaceae; myrtle family (trees and shrubs yielding a fragrant oil)