Definition of Family Sapindaceae

1. Noun. Chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sapindaceae

family Rosaceae
family Rubiaceae
family Ruscaceae
family Russulaceae
family Rutaceae
family Rynchopidae
family Saccharomycetaceae
family Sagittariidae
family Salamandridae
family Salicaceae
family Salmonidae
family Salpidae
family Salvadoraceae
family Salviniaceae
family Santalaceae
family Sapindaceae (current term)
family Sapotaceae
family Sarcoptidae
family Sarcoscyphaceae
family Sarraceniaceae
family Saturniidae
family Satyridae
family Saururaceae
family Saxifragaceae
family Scarabaeidae
family Scaridae
family Scheuchzeriaceae
family Schistosomatidae
family Schizaeaceae
family Schizophyceae

Literary usage of Family Sapindaceae

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lychee and Lungan by George Weidman Groff (1921)
"... of the family Sapindaceae has for centuries provided the thickly populated regions of Southern Asia and the East Indies with four popular and refreshing ..."

2. The Indigenous Trees of the Hawaiian Islands by Joseph Francis Charles Rock (1913)
"The family Sapindaceae, which is almost purely tropical, consists of not less, than 118 genera with over one thousand species, nearly one-third of which ..."

3. The Trees of California by Willis Linn Jepson (1909)
"Desert Ironwood (Olneya tesota Gray). Bur KKv i<: FAMILY ( Sapindaceae). California Buckeye ( Aesculus californica Nutt.). .M.xi'LE FAMILY (Aceraceae). ..."

4. An Introduction to Botany by William Chase Stevens (1902)
"... and the fruit is a double samara, and we accordingly find that we must look for it in the genus Acer, in the family Sapindaceae, on page 74. ..."

5. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1901)
"family Sapindaceae. Soapberry Family. Contains about 120 genera and over 1000 species, of wide distribution in tropical and semitropical regions. ..."

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