Definition of Drimys winteri

1. Noun. South American evergreen tree yielding winter's bark and a light soft wood similar to basswood.

Exact synonyms: Winter's Bark, Winter's Bark Tree
Group relationships: Drimys, Genus Drimys
Generic synonyms: Tree
Terms within: Winter's Bark

Lexicographical Neighbors of Drimys Winteri

Dresdners
Dressler's syndrome
Dressler's syndromes
Dressler beat
Dreulofoy's lesion
Drew
Dreyer
Dreyer's formula
Dreyers
Dreyfus
Dreyfusard
Dreyfusards
Drickamer motif
Drigalski-Conradi agar
Drimys
Drimys winteri (current term)
Drina
Drinker respirator
Drixoral
Drogheda
Dromaeosauridae
Dromaius
Dromaius novaehollandiae
Dronten
Dror
Droseraceae
Drosophila
Drosophyllum
Drosophyllum lusitanicum
Drug Enforcement Administration

Literary usage of Drimys winteri

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"... because the Drimys winteri Forst., previously Winter« aromática Murr, (named in honour of Captain Winter, who sailed with Sir Francis Drake), ..."

2. A Contribution to Our Knowledge of Seedlings by John Lubbock (1892)
"Drimys winteri, tained in a persistent ... The cotyledons of Drimys winteri (fig. 138) are oblong, ovate, obtuse, ..."

3. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1856)
"... we have little hesitation in referring this bark, which is very different from the Cortex Winter- anus of the shops, to the Drimys winteri of Forster. ..."

4. Yearbook of Pharmacy edited by J. O. Braithwaite (1893)
"... references from works on materia medica :—Canelo, " the name of a bark brought from Chili by Dombey, belonging to a variety of Drimys winteri (natural ..."

5. The Chemistry of Essential Oils and Artificial Perfumes by Ernest John Parry (1908)
"The bark of Drimys winteri yields between -5 and 1 per cent, of this oil. ... By some this bark has been credited to Drimys winteri, but its botanical ..."

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