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WINTERACEAE

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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:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("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 "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 ("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)

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