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| | Aceraceae -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | the maple family of flowering plants, in the order Sapindales, comprising about 200 species of trees and shrubs in two genera, Dipteronia (two species) of central and southern China, and Acer, the maples, widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere, crossing the equator only in Malaysia. |
 | | In Dipteronia the seed is surrounded by a wing; in Acer it is winged
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 | | In Dipteronia the seed is surrounded by a wing; in Acer it is winged only on the... |
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