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WINTERA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Evergreen shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand
Synonyms:
genus Pseudowintera; genus Wintera; Pseudowintera; Wintera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Wintera" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "Wintera"):
pepper shrub; Pseudowintera colorata; Wintera colorata (evergreen shrub or small tree whose foliage is conspicuously blotched with red and yellow and having small black fruits)
Holonyms ("Wintera" is a member of...):
family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae (small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae)