| Noun | 1. | myrsine family - family of Old World tropical trees and shrubs; some in Florida dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination order Primulales, Primulales - Primulaceae; Theophrastaceae; Myrsinaceae; and (in some classifications) Plumbaginaceae genus Myrsine, Myrsine - evergreen trees and shrubs having aromatic foliage; Africa; Asia (New Zealand) Ardisia, genus Ardisia - tropical evergreen subshrubs (some climbers) to trees of Asia and Australasia to Americas |