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CYMBID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does cymbid mean?
• CYMBID (noun)
The noun CYMBID has 1 sense:
1. any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers
Familiarity information: CYMBID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
cymbid; cymbidium
Hypernyms ("cymbid" is a kind of...):
orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)
Holonyms ("cymbid" is a member of...):
genus Cymbidium (genus of tropical epiphytic or terrestrial Old World orchids; one of the most popular orchid genera)
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