Translingual

Proper noun

Pachysandra f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Buxaceae – four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, related to the boxwoods used ornamentally as groundcover.

Hypernyms

• (genus): Plantae - kingdom; angiosperms, eudicots - clades; Buxales - order; Buxaceae - family; Sarcococceae - tribe

Hyponyms

• (genus): Pachysandra axillaris - native China; Pachysandra procumbens, Allegheny spurge - native southeast United States; Pachysandra coriacea (sometimes classified as Sarcococca coriacea) - native to India, Nepal, Myanmar; Pachysandra stylosa - native to China (sometimes treated as a variety of Pachysandra axillaris; Pachysandra terminalis Japanese spurge - native to China, Japan, widely introduced and naturalized elsewhere - species

English

Wikispecies

Noun

pachysandra ‎(plural pachysandras)

1. (botany) A genus, Pachysandra, of four or five species of evergreen shrubs or subshrubs, belonging to the boxwood family, Buxaceae, used ornamentally as groundcover.