English > Sapindaceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins. |
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| Synonyms | family Sapindaceae, soapberry family |
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| Member of | Sapindales, order Sapindales | An order of dicotyledonous plants |
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| Members | Blighia, genus Blighia | small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe |
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| Cardiospermum, genus Cardiospermum | tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot |
| Dimocarpus, genus Dimocarpus | longan |
| Dodonaea, genus Dodonaea | A genus of tropical shrub or tree |
| Melicoccus, genus Melicoccus, Melicocca, genus Melicocca | Tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries |
| Nephelium, genus Nephelium | A genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia |
| Sapindus, genus Sapindus | type genus of the Sapindaceae |
| genus Harpullia | genus of tropical Asiatic and African trees |
| genus Litchi | Chinese trees |
| Broader | dicot family, magnoliopsid family | family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
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| Spanish | sapindáceas |
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| Catalan | Sapindaceae |
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