FAMILY STYRACACEAE
Dictionary entry overview: What does family Styracaceae mean?
• FAMILY STYRACACEAE (noun)
The noun FAMILY STYRACACEAE has 1 sense:
1. a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales
Familiarity information: FAMILY STYRACACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• FAMILY STYRACACEAE (noun)
Meaning:
A widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Styracaceae; storax family; Styracaceae; styrax family
Hypernyms ("family Styracaceae" 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 "family Styracaceae"):
genus Styrax (deciduous or evergreen shrubs and small trees)
genus Halesia; Halesia (deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America)
Holonyms ("family Styracaceae" is a member of...):
Ebenales; order Ebenales (trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae)