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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.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Order Sapindales, Sapindales
Member holonyms: Anacardium, Genus Anacardium, Astronium, Genus Astronium, Cotinus, Genus Cotinus, Genus Malosma, Malosma, Genus Mangifera, Mangifera, Genus Pistacia, Pistacia, Genus Rhodosphaera, Rhodosphaera, Genus Rhus, Rhus, Genus Schinus, Schinus, Genus Spondias, Spondias, Genus Toxicodendron, Toxicodendron
Lexicographical Neighbors of Family Anacardiaceae
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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