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BUXACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Buxaceae mean? 

BUXACEAE (noun)
  The noun BUXACEAE has 1 sense:

1. widely distributed evergreen shrubs and treesplay

  Familiarity information: BUXACEAE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BUXACEAE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

box family; Buxaceae; family Buxaceae

Hypernyms ("Buxaceae" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Buxaceae"):

Buxus; genus Buxus (type genus of the Buxaceae)

genus Pachysandra (evergreen perennial procumbent subshrubs or herbs)

Holonyms ("Buxaceae" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)


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