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Definition of Buxaceae
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 Buxaceae
Literary usage of Buxaceae
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)
"buxaceae Dumort. Comm. Bot. 54. 1822. Box FAMILY. Monoecious or dioecious trees,
shrubs or perennial herbs, with alternate or opposite simple mostly ..."
2. Flora of Pennsylvania by Thomas Conrad Porter, John Kunkel Small (1903)
"buxaceae. Corolla present. Herbs with tender tissues. Fam. 2. LIMNANTHACEAE. ...
BALSAMINACEAE. FAMILY i. buxaceae Dumort. Box FAMILY. 1. PACHYSANDRA Michx. ..."
3. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1902)
"The families of the Sapindales differ widely and have been divided into numerous
subseries. The Empetraceae, buxaceae, and ..."
4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"buxaceae (Box FAMILY) Perennial herbs or more often trees or shrubs, with simple,
opposite or alternate usually evergreen ..."
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