ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈrāsēˌē noun plural
Usage: capitalized
Etymology: New Latin, from Wintera, type genus + -aceae
: a small family of chiefly tropical shrubs and trees (order Ranales) characterized by alternate aromatic pellucid-dotted leaves without stipules and rather small usually cymose or fasciculate flowers with a single whorl of carpels and sometimes included in Magnoliaceae