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PURPLE FRINGELESS ORCHIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does purple fringeless orchis mean? 

PURPLE FRINGELESS ORCHIS (noun)
  The noun PURPLE FRINGELESS ORCHIS has 1 sense:

1. orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisionsplay

  Familiarity information: PURPLE FRINGELESS ORCHIS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PURPLE FRINGELESS ORCHIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Habenaria peramoena; purple fringeless orchid; purple fringeless orchis

Hypernyms ("purple fringeless 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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