FLY ORCHID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fly orchid mean? 

• FLY ORCHID (noun)
  The noun FLY ORCHID has 2 senses:

1. any of several dwarf creeping orchids with small bizarre insect-like hairy flowers on slender stalks

2. European orchid whose flowers resemble flies

  Familiarity information: FLY ORCHID used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FLY ORCHID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several dwarf creeping orchids with small bizarre insect-like hairy flowers on slender stalks

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("fly orchid" 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 ("fly orchid" is a member of...):

genus Trichoceros; Trichoceros (small genus of small epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of tropical South America)

Sense 2

Meaning:

European orchid whose flowers resemble flies

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fly orchid; Ophrys insectifera; Ophrys muscifera

Hypernyms ("fly orchid" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)