HELMET ORCHID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does helmet orchid mean? 

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

1. any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood

2. any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELMET ORCHID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

greenhood; helmet orchid

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

genus Pterostylis; Pterostylis (genus of terrestrial orchids of Australia and New Zealand and western Pacific)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

helmet orchid; helmetflower

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

Coryanthes; genus Coryanthes (small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids)