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STYRAX FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales
Synonyms:
family Styracaceae; storax family; Styracaceae; styrax family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("styrax 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 "styrax family"):
genus Styrax (deciduous or evergreen shrubs and small trees)
genus Halesia; Halesia (deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America)
Holonyms ("styrax family" is a member of...):
Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)
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