meadow-beauty family

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meadow-beauty family - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  meadow-beauty family
      n 1: a family of trees and bushes and herbs of order Myrtales;
           many are cultivated as ornamentals [syn: Melastomataceae,
           family Melastomataceae, Melastomaceae, family Melastomaceae
           , meadow-beauty family]