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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of evergreen aromatic shrubs or small trees, belonging to the natural order Magnoliaceæ and nearly related to the genus Illicium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of magnoliaceous trees.
Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage
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