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Definition of Box family
1. Noun. Widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Buxus, Genus Buxus, Genus Pachysandra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Box Family
Literary usage of Box family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Box FAMILY. Monoecious or dioecious trees, shrubs or perennial herbs, with
alternate or opposite simple mostly evergreen leaves, the sap not milky. ..."
2. Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden by New York Botanical Garden (1908)
"Following this is the box family, represented by a number of forms of the box-tree,
from Europe, Asia and Japan; the wood of the box-tree is highly prized ..."
3. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"box family. This was formerly united with the Spurge Family above described, from
which it may be distinguished by the absence of milky juice. ..."
4. My Life on the Plains: Or, Personal Experiences with Indians by George Armstrong Custer (1874)
"The box family consisted of the father, mother, and five children, the eldest a
girl about eighteen, the youngest a babe. The entire family had been ..."
5. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"S. ramiflora. Family BUXACEAE. box family. A rather small family producing the
boxwood formerly much used in wood-engraving, but otherwise of little use. ..."
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