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Definition of Soapberry family
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 Soapberry Family
Literary usage of Soapberry family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"soapberry family. Trees or shrubs, with watery sap, rarely herbaceous vines.
Leaves alternate (opposite in one exotic genus), mostly pinnate or palmate, ..."
2. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1913)
"soapberry family. Trees or shrubs, with watery sap, rarely herbaceous vines.
Leaves alternate (opposite in one exotic genus), mostly pinnate or palmate, ..."
3. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"soapberry family. Trees or shrubs, with watery sap, rarely herbaceous vines.
Leaves alternate (opposite in one exotic genus), mostly pinnate or palmate, ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"soapberry family. Trees or shrubs, with watery sap, rarely herbaceous vines.
Leaves alternate (opposite in one exotic genus), mostly pinnate or palmate, ..."
5. The Elements of Botany for Beginners and for Schools by Asa Gray (1887)
"... soapberry family. Trees, shrubs, or one or two herbaceous climbers, mostly
with compound or lobed leaves, and unsymmetrical flowers, ..."
6. Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States by Asa Gray (1857)
"(soapberry family.) Trees, shrubs, or rarely herbs, with, simple or compound
leaves, mostly un- symmetrical and ..."
7. Scientific and Applied Pharmacognosy for Students of Pharmacy, and by Henry Kraemer (1915)
"... OR soapberry family. A large family of over 1000 species, chiefly tropical woody
... soapberry family."
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