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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.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Dodonaea, Genus Dodonaea, Genus Sapindus, Sapindus, Blighia, Genus Blighia, Cardiospermum, Genus Cardiospermum, Dimocarpus, Genus Dimocarpus, Genus Harpullia, Genus Litchi, Genus Melicocca, Genus Melicoccus, Melicocca, Melicoccus, Genus Nephelium, Nephelium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Sapindaceae
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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