BOX FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does box family mean? 

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

1. widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOX FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

box family; Buxaceae; family Buxaceae

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)

 Context examples 

DbpB is a member of the Y box family of transcription factors and binds to both RNA and DNA.

(DBPB Transcriptional Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

The MAX gene encodes a bHLH/ZIP protein that forms a heterodimer with MYC and binds with high affinity to a DNA site in the MYC gene and DDX18, a DEAD box family member.

(Oncogene MAX, NCI Thesaurus)