Noun: sumac family 'shoo,mak 'fa-mu-lee
- The cashew family; trees and shrubs and vines having resinous (sometimes poisonous) juice; includes cashew and mango and pistachio and poison ivy and sumac
"Many members of the sumac family produce edible fruits";
- Anacardiaceae, family Anacardiaceae
Type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family
Part of: order Sapindales, Sapindales
Encyclopedia: Sumac family