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MYRICA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Deciduous aromatic shrubs or small trees

Synonyms:

genus Myrica; Myrica

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Myrica" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Myrica"):

Myrica gale; Scotch gale; sweet gale (bog shrub of north temperate zone having bitter-tasting fragrant leaves)

wax myrtle (any shrub or small tree of the genus Myrica with aromatic foliage and small wax-coated berries)

Holonyms ("Myrica" is a member of...):

family Myricaceae; Myricaceae; wax-myrtle family (constituting the order Myricales)

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