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myrtle family
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- the plant family Myrtaceae, characterized by mostly tropical trees and shrubs having aromatic, simple, usually opposite leaves, clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including allspice, clove, eucalyptus, guava, and myrtles of the genus Myrtus.
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It belongs to the myrtle family of plants.
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The myrtle family, the members of which are all tropical or sub-tropical, gives name to the order.
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A genus of plants of the myrtle family, which grow to a prodigious height.
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