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  • 21Sapindales — ▪ plant order Introduction  order of dicotyledonous flowering plants, containing 9 families, about 460 genera, and some 5,700 species of shrubs, woody vines, and trees. It includes the Citrus genus and other species important for their fruits.… …

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  • 22Malpighiales — ▪ plant order Introduction   large order of flowering plants that includes 40 families, more than 700 genera, and almost 16,000 species. Many of the families are tropical and poorly known, but well known members of the order include Salicaceae (… …

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  • 23Pacific yew — noun small or medium irregularly branched tree of the Pacific coast of North America; yields fine hard close grained wood • Syn: ↑California yew, ↑western yew, ↑Taxus brevifolia • Hypernyms: ↑yew • Member Holonyms: ↑Taxus, ↑ …

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  • 24scarlet oak — noun medium large deciduous tree with a thick trunk found in the eastern United States and southern Canada and having close grained wood and deeply seven lobed leaves turning scarlet in autumn • Syn: ↑Quercus coccinea • Hypernyms: ↑oak, ↑oak tree …

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  • 25nakedwood — noun 1. any of several small to medium sized trees of Florida and West Indies with thin scaly bark and heavy dark heartwood • Hypernyms: ↑tree • Member Holonyms: ↑Colubrina, ↑genus Colubrina 2. tree of extreme southern Florida and West Indies… …

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  • 26portia tree — noun pantropical tree of usually seacoasts sometimes cultivated as an ornamental for its rounded heart shaped leaves and showy yellow and purple flowers; yields valuable pink to dark red close grained wood and oil from its seeds • Syn: ↑bendy… …

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  • 27Acer saccharum — noun maple of eastern and central North America having three lobed to five lobed leaves and hard close grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies… …

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  • 28rock maple — noun maple of eastern and central North America having three lobed to five lobed leaves and hard close grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies… …

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  • 29sugar maple — noun maple of eastern and central North America having three lobed to five lobed leaves and hard close grained wood much used for cabinet work especially the curly grained form; sap is chief source of maple syrup and maple sugar; many subspecies… …

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  • 30sweet birch — noun common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture • Syn: ↑cherry birch, ↑black birch, ↑Betula lenta • Hypernyms: ↑birch, ↑birch tree • Member Holonyms: ↑ …

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