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BOX FAMILY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees

Synonyms:

box family; Buxaceae; family Buxaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("box 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 "box family"):

Buxus; genus Buxus (type genus of the Buxaceae)

genus Pachysandra (evergreen perennial procumbent subshrubs or herbs)

Holonyms ("box family" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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