CEPHALANTHERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cephalanthera mean? 

• CEPHALANTHERA (noun)
  The noun CEPHALANTHERA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of temperate Old World terrestrial orchids

  Familiarity information: CEPHALANTHERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CEPHALANTHERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of temperate Old World terrestrial orchids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Cephalanthera; genus Cephalanthera

Hypernyms ("Cephalanthera" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Cephalanthera"):

helleborine (any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera)

Cephalanthera rubra; red helleborine (orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers)

Holonyms ("Cephalanthera" is a member of...):

family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)