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DRIMYS

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Meaning:

Shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage

Synonyms:

Drimys; genus Drimys

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Drimys" is a kind of...):

magnoliid dicot genus (genus of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)

Meronyms (members of "Drimys"):

Drimys winteri; winter's bark; winter's bark tree (South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood)

Holonyms ("Drimys" 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)

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