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WINTERACEAE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Winteraceae mean?
• WINTERACEAE (noun)
The noun WINTERACEAE has 1 sense:
1. small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae
Familiarity information: WINTERACEAE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae
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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