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GENUS CATTLEYA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cattleya mean?
• GENUS CATTLEYA (noun)
The noun GENUS CATTLEYA has 1 sense:
1. large and highly valued genus of beautiful tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids; the typical orchids; known in many varieties
Familiarity information: GENUS CATTLEYA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large and highly valued genus of beautiful tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids; the typical orchids; known in many varieties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Cattleya" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cattleya"):
cattleya (any orchid of the genus Cattleya characterized by a three-lobed lip enclosing the column; among the most popular and most extravagantly beautiful orchids known)
Holonyms ("genus Cattleya" 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)
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