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    ANACARDIACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

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

    Synonyms:

    Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Anacardiaceae" 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 "Anacardiaceae"):

    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 ("Anacardiaceae" is a member of...):

    order Sapindales; Sapindales (an order of dicotyledonous plants)

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