SUMAC FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sumac family mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUMAC FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family

Hypernyms ("sumac 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 "sumac family"):

Anacardium; genus Anacardium (type genus of the Anacardiaceae: cashew)

Astronium; genus Astronium (a genus of dicotyledonous plants of the family Anacardiaceae)

Cotinus; genus Cotinus (smoke trees)

genus Malosma; Malosma (one species; often included in the genus Rhus)

genus Mangifera; Mangifera (tropical tree native to Asia bearing fleshy fruit)

genus Pistacia; Pistacia (a dicotyledonous genus of trees of the family Anacardiaceae having drupaceous fruit)

genus Rhodosphaera; Rhodosphaera (one species; an Australian evergreen sumac)

genus Rhus; Rhus (deciduous or evergreen shrubs and shrubby trees of temperate and subtropical North America, South Africa, eastern Asia and northeastern Australia; usually limited to nonpoisonous sumacs (see genus Toxicodendron))

genus Schinus; Schinus (genus of evergreen shrubs and trees of tropical and subtropical regions of South and Central America and Canary Islands and China)

genus Spondias; Spondias (tropical trees having one-seeded fruit)

genus Toxicodendron; Toxicodendron (in some classifications: comprising those members of the genus Rhus having foliage that is poisonous to the touch; of North America and northern South America)

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

order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)