| Noun | 1. | family Buxaceae - widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination order Sapindales, Sapindales - an order of dicotyledonous plants Buxus, genus Buxus - type genus of the Buxaceae genus Pachysandra - evergreen perennial procumbent subshrubs or herbs |