soapberry family
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| Noun | 1. | soapberry family - 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 Dimocarpus, genus Dimocarpus - longan 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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