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Winteraceae

noun

small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae

• Syn: ↑family Winteraceae, ↑winter's bark family

• Hypernyms: ↑magnoliid dicot family

• Member Holonyms: ↑Ranales, ↑order Ranales, ↑Ranunculales, ↑order Ranunculales

• Member Meronyms: ↑Drimys, ↑genus Drimys, ↑Pseudowintera, ↑genus Pseudowintera, ↑Wintera, ↑genus Wintera

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\\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈrāsēˌē\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Wintera, type genus + -aceae

: a small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees (order Ranales) characterized by alternate aromatic pellucid-dotted leaves without stipules and rather small usually cymose or fasciculate flowers with a single whorl of carpels and sometimes included in Magnoliaceae

Useful english dictionary. 2012.