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    FAMILY WINTERACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    family Winteraceae; winter's bark family; Winteraceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("family 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 "family 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 ("family 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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