STYRAX FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does styrax family mean? 

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

1. a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• STYRAX FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Styracaceae; storax family; Styracaceae; styrax family

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)