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Webster 1913 Edition
Myrtaceous
Myr-ta′ceous
,Adj.
[L.
myrtaceus
.] (Bot.)
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large and important natural family of trees and shrubs (
Myrtaceae
of the order Myrtales
), of which the myrtle (Myrtus
) is the type. It includes the genera Eucalyptus
, Pimenta
, Lechythis
, and about seventy more.