Myrcia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Myrcia \Myr"ci*a\, n. [NL.] (Bot.)
     A large genus of tropical American trees and shrubs, nearly
     related to the true myrtles ({Myrtus}), from which they
     differ in having very few seeds in each berry.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Myrcia
       n : a genus of tropical American trees and shrubs of the myrtle
           family [syn: {Myrciaria}, {genus Myrciaria}]