Akademik

Melastomataceae

noun

a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales; many are cultivated as ornamentals

• Syn: ↑family 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

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\\mə̇ˌlastəməˈtāsēˌē\

Etymology: New Latin, from Melastomat-, Melastoma + -aceae

synonym of melastomaceae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.