storax family

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Noun

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storax family - a widely distributed family of shrubs and trees of order Ebenales family Styracaceae, Styracaceae, styrax family 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