| Noun | 1. | Cistaceae - shrubs or woody herbs of temperate regions especially Mediterranean dilleniid dicot family - family of more or less advanced dicotyledonous trees and shrubs and herbs Hypericales, order Hypericales, order Parietales, Parietales - a large order of dicotyledonous plants of subclass Dilleniidae Cistus, genus Cistus - small to medium-sized evergreen shrubs of southern Europe and North Africa genus Helianthemum - widely distributed evergreen or semi-evergreen shrublets; America; Europe and North Africa to Asia Minor and central Asia genus Hudsonia, Hudsonia - small evergreen subshrubs of North America |