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FAMILY WINTERACEAE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae
Synonyms:
family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("family Winteraceae" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "family Winteraceae"):
Drimys; genus Drimys (shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage)
genus Pseudowintera; genus Wintera; Pseudowintera; Wintera (evergreen shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand)
Holonyms ("family Winteraceae" is a member of...):
order Ranales; order Ranunculales; Ranales; Ranunculales (herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae)