WINTER'S BARK FAMILY
Dictionary entry overview: What does winter's bark family mean?
• WINTER'S BARK FAMILY (noun)
The noun WINTER'S BARK FAMILY has 1 sense:
1. small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae
Familiarity information: WINTER'S BARK FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WINTER'S BARK FAMILY (noun)
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 ("winter's bark family" is a kind of...):
magnoliid dicot family (family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms)
Meronyms (members of "winter's bark family"):
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 ("winter's bark family" 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)
