| Noun | 1. | winter's bark family - small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees of genera Drimys and Pseudowintera; sometimes included in Magnoliaceae magnoliid dicot family - family of dicotyledonous flowering plants regarded as among the most primitive of extant angiosperms order Ranales, order Ranunculales, Ranales, Ranunculales - herbs, shrubs and trees: includes families Ranunculaceae; Annonaceae; Berberidaceae; Magnoliaceae; Menispermaceae; Myristicaceae; Nymphaeaceae; Lardizabalaceae; Lauraceae; Calycanthaceae; Ceratophyllaceae; Cercidiphyllaceae 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 |