SOAPBERRY FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does soapberry family mean? 

• SOAPBERRY FAMILY (noun)
  The noun SOAPBERRY FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins

  Familiarity information: SOAPBERRY FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOAPBERRY FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly tropical New and Old World deciduous and evergreen trees and shrubs bearing leathery drupes with yellow translucent flesh; most plants produce toxic saponins

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Sapindaceae; Sapindaceae; soapberry family

Hypernyms ("soapberry family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "soapberry family"):

Dodonaea; genus Dodonaea (a genus of tropical shrub or tree)

genus Sapindus; Sapindus (type genus of the Sapindaceae)

Blighia; genus Blighia (small genus of western African evergreen trees and shrubs bearing fleshy capsular three-seeded fruits edible when neither unripe nor overripe)

Cardiospermum; genus Cardiospermum (tendril-climbing herbs or shrubs whose seeds have a white heart-shaped spot)

Dimocarpus; genus Dimocarpus (longan)

genus Harpullia (genus of tropical Asiatic and African trees)

genus Litchi (Chinese trees)

genus Melicocca; genus Melicoccus; Melicocca; Melicoccus (tropical American trees and shrubs bearing berries)

genus Nephelium; Nephelium (a genus of dicotyledonous trees of the family Sapindaceae that are native to Asia and Australia)

Holonyms ("soapberry family" is a member of...):

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)