| Noun | 1. | styrax family - a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales 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 genus Styrax - deciduous or evergreen shrubs and small trees genus Halesia, Halesia - deciduous small trees or shrubs of China and eastern North America |