Definition: myrtaceous

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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Myrtaceous \Myr*ta"ceous\, a. [L. myrtaceus.] (Bot.)
   Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large and important
   natural order of trees and shrubs (Myrtace[ae]), of which
   the myrtle is the type. It includes the genera Eucalyptus,
   Pimenta, Lechythis, and about seventy more.