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Definition of Drimys
1. Noun. Shrubs and trees of southern hemisphere having aromatic foliage.
Generic synonyms: Magnoliid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Family Winteraceae, Winter's Bark Family, Winteraceae
Member holonyms: Drimys Winteri, Winter's Bark, Winter's Bark Tree
Definition of Drimys
1. n. A genus of magnoliaceous trees. Drimys aromatica furnishes Winter's bark.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Drimys
Literary usage of Drimys
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Systematic Anatomy of the Dicotyledons: A Handbook for Laboratories of Pure by Hans Solereder, Dukinfield Henry Scott (1908)
"Branched sclerenchyma-cells also occur in the mesophyll, though this is exceptional,
eg in the spongy tissue in drimys retorta, Miers. ..."
2. 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), ..."
3. Science Papers: Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical by Daniel Hanbury (1876)
"The observation of Henkel that an important difference exists between the bark
of the drimys Winteri, and the bark commonly used as Cortex Winteri in the ..."
4. Science Papers: Chiefly Pharmacological and Botanical by Daniel Hanbury (1876)
"The observation of Henkel that an important difference exists between the bark
of the drimys W interi, und the bark commonly used as Cortex Vf interi in the ..."
5. Yearbook of Pharmacy edited by J. O. Braithwaite (1893)
"The same person says that the drimys grows on the coast of this country, and of
Venezuela . . . Coto in Spanish means goitre.1 Yours, etc., FF NEWCOME. ..."
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