sapindales

1. An order of dicotyledonous plants (synset 112760956)
   is a type of: plant order - the order of plants
   member holonym:

   • family sapindaceae, sapindaceae, 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
   • box family, buxaceae, family buxaceae - widely distributed evergreen shrubs and trees
   • celastraceae, family celastraceae, spindle-tree family, staff-tree family - trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having bright-colored fruits
   • cyrilla family, cyrilliaceae, family cyrilliaceae, titi family - shrubs and trees with leathery leaves and small white flowers in racemes: genera Cyrilla and Cliftonia
   • crowberry family, empetraceae, family empetraceae - heathlike shrubs
   • aceraceae, family aceraceae, maple family - a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples
   • aquifoliaceae, family aquifoliaceae, holly family - widely distributed shrubs and trees
   • anacardiaceae, family anacardiaceae, sumac family - the cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac
   • family hippocastanaceae, hippocastanaceae, horse-chestnut family - trees having showy flowers and inedible nutlike seeds in a leathery capsule
   • bladdernut family, family staphylaceae, staphylaceae - a family of dicotyledonous plants of order Sapindales found mostly in the north temperate zone
   belongs to: class dicotyledonae, class dicotyledones, class magnoliopsida, dicotyledonae, dicotyledones, magnoliopsida - 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
   same as: order sapindales

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