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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The myrtle family, an order of dicotyledonous trees and shrubs of the polypetalous cohort Myrtales, typified by the genus Myrtus, and known by the numerous stamens and leaves without stipules, generally opposite, dotted, and with a marginal vein.
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