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GREEN FRINGED ORCHIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does green fringed orchis mean? 

GREEN FRINGED ORCHIS (noun)
  The noun GREEN FRINGED ORCHIS has 1 sense:

1. fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply laceratedplay

  Familiarity information: GREEN FRINGED ORCHIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GREEN FRINGED ORCHIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

green fringed orchis; Habenaria lacera; ragged-fringed orchid; ragged orchid; ragged orchis

Hypernyms ("green fringed orchis" is a kind of...):

fringed orchid; fringed orchis (any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip)


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