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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 trees
Familiarity information: BUXACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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