Definition of Family Anacardiaceae

1. Noun. The cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Anacardiaceae

family Aloeaceae
family Alopiidae
family Alstroemeriaceae
family Amaranthaceae
family Amaryllidaceae
family Ambrosiaceae
family Ambystomatidae
family Ameiuridae
family Amiidae
family Ammodytidae
family Amphioxidae
family Amphisbaenidae
family Amphiumidae
family Amygdalaceae
family Anabantidae
family Anacardiaceae (current term)
family Anarhichadidae
family Anatidae
family Ancylidae
family Ancylostomatidae
family Andrenidae
family Anguidae
family Anguillidae
family Anhimidae
family Anhingidae
family Anniellidae
family Annonaceae
family Anobiidae
family Anomalopidae
family Anomiidae

Literary usage of Family Anacardiaceae

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

1. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"Sumac family (Anacardiaceae). fragrant sumac; sweet-scented sumac. Indigenous shrub, 2 to 6 feet high, growing in woods and rocky situations, ..."

2. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"CASHEW FAMILY. Anacardiaceae. Trees or shrubs with acrid milky or resinous juice, sometimes poisonous, and alternate compound leaves; the flowers often ..."

3. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: The sumac family (Anacardiaceae), containing the sumacs in the genus Rhus. (Examples: the poison-ivy (R. radicans), a climbing vine, ..."

4. A College Text-book of Botany: Being an Enlargement of the Author's by George Francis Atkinson (1905)
"Examples: The sumac family (Anacardiaceae), containing the sumacs in the genus Rhus. (Examples: the poison-ivy (R. radicans), a climbing vine, ..."

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