FAMILY BUXACEAE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does family Buxaceae mean? 

• FAMILY BUXACEAE (noun)
  The noun FAMILY BUXACEAE has 1 sense:

1. widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FAMILY BUXACEAE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

box family; Buxaceae; family Buxaceae

Hypernyms ("family 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 "family Buxaceae"):

Buxus; genus Buxus (type genus of the Buxaceae)

genus Pachysandra (evergreen perennial procumbent subshrubs or herbs)

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

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)