GENUS DRIMYS
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Drimys mean? • GENUS DRIMYS (noun)
The noun GENUS DRIMYS has 1 sense:
1. shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage
Familiarity information: GENUS DRIMYS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS DRIMYS (noun)
Meaning:
Shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Drimys; genus Drimys
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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