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Definition of Family Buxaceae
1. Noun. Widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees.
Exact synonyms: Box Family, Buxaceae
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Buxus, Genus Buxus, Genus Pachysandra
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Buxus, Genus Buxus, Genus Pachysandra
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Buxaceae
Literary usage of Family Buxaceae
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Buxaceae. Box Family. This was formerly united with the Spurge Family
above described, from which it may be distinguished by the absence of milky ..."
2. Plant Materials of Decorative Gardening: The Woody Plants by William Trelease (1917)
"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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