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SOAPBERRY FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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
Synonyms:
family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("soapberry family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "soapberry family"):
Dodonaea; genus Dodonaea (a genus of tropical shrub or tree)
genus Sapindus; Sapindus (type genus of the Sapindaceae)
Blighia; genus Blighia (small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe)
Cardiospermum; genus Cardiospermum (tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot)
Dimocarpus; genus Dimocarpus (longan)
genus Harpullia (genus of tropical Asiatic and African trees)
genus Litchi (Chinese trees)
genus Melicocca; genus Melicoccus; Melicocca; Melicoccus (tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries)
genus Nephelium; Nephelium (a genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia)
Holonyms ("soapberry family" is a member of...):
order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)
