order sapindales
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1. an order of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | plant order, |
| definition | : | the order of plants (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | family sapindaceae, sapindaceae, soapberry family, |
| definition | : | chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | box family, buxaceae, family buxaceae, |
| definition | : | widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | celastraceae, family celastraceae, spindle-tree family, staff-tree family, |
| definition | : | trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | cyrilla family, cyrilliaceae, family cyrilliaceae, titi family, |
| definition | : | shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | crowberry family, empetraceae, family empetraceae, |
| definition | : | heathlike shrubs (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | aceraceae, family aceraceae, maple family, |
| definition | : | a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | aquifoliaceae, family aquifoliaceae, holly family, |
| definition | : | widely distributed shrubs and trees (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | anacardiaceae, family anacardiaceae, sumac family, |
| definition | : | the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | family hippocastanaceae, hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family, |
| definition | : | trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule (noun.plant) |
| member holonym | : | bladdernut family, family staphylaceae, staphylaceae, |
| definition | : | a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Sapindales found mostly in the north temperate zone (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | class dicotyledonae, class dicotyledones, class magnoliopsida, dicotyledonae, dicotyledones, magnoliopsida, |
| definition | : | comprising seed plants that produce an embryo with paired cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae (noun.plant) |
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