noun
a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maples
• Syn: ↑family Aceraceae, ↑maple family
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Sapindales, ↑order Sapindales
• Member Meronyms: ↑Acer, ↑genus Acer, ↑Dipteronia, ↑genus Dipteronia
Useful english dictionary. 2012.