EPIPACTIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Epipactis mean? 

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

1. genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EPIPACTIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Epipactis; genus Epipactis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Epipactis"):

helleborine (any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis)

Epipactis helleborine (European orchid with spikes of green and pinkish or purplish flowers)

chatterbox; Epipactis gigantea; giant helleborine; stream orchid (orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf)

Holonyms ("Epipactis" 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)