family staphylaceae

English Thesaurus

1. a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Sapindales found mostly in the north temperate zone (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot family, magnoliopsid family,
definition	:	family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	genus staphylea, staphylea,
definition	:	a genus of small trees or shrubs of the family Staphylaceae (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	order sapindales, sapindales,
definition	:	an order of dicotyledonous plants (noun.plant)