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BOX FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees
Synonyms:
box family; Buxaceae; family Buxaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("box family" 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 "box family"):
Buxus; genus Buxus (type genus of the Buxaceae)
genus Pachysandra (evergreen perennial procumbent subshrubs or herbs)
Holonyms ("box family" is a member of...):
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
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