myrsine family

Noun
  1. Family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs;
    Some in Florida (synset 112117315)
    is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
    member holonym:
    • 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
    belongs to: order primulales, primulales - Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae
    same as: family myrsinaceae, myrsinaceae

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