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Noun: sumac family  'shoo,mak 'fa-mu-lee
  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
    - Anacardiaceae, family Anacardiaceae

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: order Sapindales, Sapindales

Encyclopedia: Sumac family