family Sapindaceae


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Noun1.family Sapindaceae - chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins
dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
order Sapindales, Sapindales - an order of dicotyledonous plants
Dodonaea, genus Dodonaea - a genus of tropical shrub or tree
genus Sapindus, Sapindus - type genus of the Sapindaceae
Blighia, genus Blighia - small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe
Cardiospermum, genus Cardiospermum - tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot
genus Harpullia - genus of tropical Asiatic and African trees
genus Litchi - Chinese trees
genus Melicocca, genus Melicoccus, Melicocca, Melicoccus - tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries
genus Nephelium, Nephelium - a genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia
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Conversely, the predominantly tendrillate family Sapindaceae included seven species in SDF and only four in cerradao.
(syn-Ptelea viscosa Linn.) belongs to the family Sapindaceae which includes 150 genera and approximately 2000 species.