English > Winteraceae: 1 sense > noun 1, plantMeaning | small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera ... / genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae. |
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Synonyms | family Winteraceae, winter's bark family |
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Member of | Ranales, order Ranales, Ranunculales, order Ranunculales | herbs, shrubs and trees |
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Members | Drimys, genus Drimys | shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage |
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Pseudowintera, genus Pseudowintera, Wintera, genus Wintera | evergreen shrubs or small trees of Australia and New Zealand |
Broader | magnoliid dicot family | family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms |
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