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Definition of Storax family
1. Noun. A widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Ebenales, Order Ebenales
Member holonyms: Genus Styrax, Genus Halesia, Halesia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Storax Family
Literary usage of Storax 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)
"storax family. Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate leaves. Flowers regular,
perfect, or rarely ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"[Greek, con- Horse-sugar. Fig. 3308. Family 12. STYRACACEAE A. DC. Prodr. 8: 244.
1844. storax family. Trees or shrubs, with alternate exstipulate leaves. ..."
3. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... STYRACACEAE (storax family; Shrubs or trees, with alternate, simple haves
destitute of stipules, and perfect regular flowers ; the calyx either free or ..."
4. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"As the English name implies, they are rather sweet to the taste, like sugar.
Horses and cows eat them most greedily. THE storax family. ..."
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