noun
a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals
• Syn: ↑Melastomataceae, ↑Melastomaceae, ↑family Melastomaceae, ↑meadow-beauty family
• Hypernyms: ↑rosid dicot family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Myrtales, ↑order Myrtales, ↑Thymelaeales, ↑order Thymelaeales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Melastoma, ↑genus Melastoma, ↑Medinilla, ↑genus Medinilla, ↑Rhexia, ↑genus Rhexia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.