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Noun: myrsine family
  1. Family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida
    - Myrsinaceae, family Myrsinaceae
Noun: Myrsine
  1. Evergreen trees and shrubs having aromatic foliage; Africa; Asia (New Zealand)
    - genus Myrsine

Type of: dicot family, dicot genus, magnoliopsid family, magnoliopsid genus

Part of: order Primulales, Primulales

Encyclopedia: Myrsine