family Sapindaceae

family Sapindaceae
noun
chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins
Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
Member Holonyms: ↑Sapindales, ↑order Sapindales
Member Meronyms:

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

Игры ⚽ Нужна курсовая?

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Sapindaceae — noun chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins • Syn: ↑family Sapindaceae, ↑soapberry family • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family,… …   Useful english dictionary

  • Sapindaceae — Taxobox name = Soapberry family image caption = Litchi chinensis leaves and fruit regnum = Plantae unranked divisio = Angiosperms unranked classis = Eudicots unranked ordo = Rosids ordo = Sapindales familia = Sapindaceae familia authority = Juss …   Wikipedia

  • soapberry family — noun chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins • Syn: ↑Sapindaceae, ↑family Sapindaceae • Hypernyms: ↑dicot family,… …   Useful english dictionary

  • dicot family — noun family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination • Syn: ↑magnoliopsid family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family, ↑hamamelid dicot family, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • magnoliopsid family — noun family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination • Syn: ↑dicot family • Hypernyms: ↑family • Hyponyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family, ↑hamamelid dicot family, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

  • List of Sapindaceae genera — There are approximatively 140 genera in the family Sapindaceae. Several of the genera in this list (e.g. Negundo ) are treated as synonyms of others by most botanists.A* Acer * Aesculus * Alectryon * Allophylus * Allosanthus * Alphania *… …   Wikipedia

  • soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and… …   Universalium

  • List of trees and shrubs by taxonomic family — The following is a list of trees and shrubs of high notoriety. Taxonomic families for the following trees and shrubs are listed in alphabetical order, likewise the genera and closely related species.=GYMNOSPERMS= =CONIFERS= Araucariaceae: The… …   Wikipedia

  • Sapindales — ▪ plant order Introduction  order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, containing 9 families, about 460 genera, and some 5,700 species of shrubs, woody vines, and trees. It includes the Citrus genus and other species important for their fruits.… …   Universalium

  • Aceraceae — Field Maple Acer campestre, in Ebsdorfergrund Frauenberg, Hesse, Germany Scientific classification Kingdom …   Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”