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SUMAC FAMILY
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I. (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
Synonyms:
Anacardiaceae; family Anacardiaceae; sumac family
Classified under:
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)
