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Noun: soapberry family
  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
    - Sapindaceae, family Sapindaceae

Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family

Part of: order Sapindales, Sapindales

Encyclopedia: Soapberry family