MYRSINE FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does myrsine family mean? 

• MYRSINE FAMILY (noun)
  The noun MYRSINE FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida

  Familiarity information: MYRSINE FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MYRSINE FAMILY (noun)

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 ("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)