| Noun | 1. | ebony family - fruit and timber trees of tropical and warm regions including ebony and persimmon dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination Ebenales, order Ebenales - trees or shrubs of the families Ebenaceae or Sapotaceae or Styracaceae or Symplocaceae Diospyros, genus Diospyros - a genus of trees or shrubs that have beautiful and valuable wood |