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    GENUS DRIMYS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliageplay

    Synonyms:

    Drimys; genus Drimys

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus 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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