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SAPINDALES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An order of dicotyledonous plants
Synonyms:
order Sapindales; Sapindales
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Sapindales" is a kind of...):
plant order (the order of plants)
Meronyms (members of "Sapindales"):
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)
Holonyms ("Sapindales" is a member of...):
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)