maple family

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maple family - a family of trees and shrubs of order Sapindales including the maplesAceraceae, family Aceraceaedicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germinationorder Sapindales, Sapindales - an order of dicotyledonous plantsAcer, genus Acer - type genus of the Aceraceae; trees or shrubs having winged fruitDipteronia, genus Dipteronia - small genus of large deciduous shrubs having large clusters of winged seeds that turn red as they mature; central and southern China