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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of the natural order Myrsinaceæ, containing 5 or 6 species of trees or shrubs, native in tropical America, and cultivated as hothouse plants.
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- noun sometimes placed in family Myrsinaceae
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(the American tribe, with flowers in panicles, forms probably a particular genus); the Galega piscatorum, of which the Indians make use, as they do of jacquinia, and of a composite plant of the Rio
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814
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