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SHOWY ORCHIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does showy orchis mean? 

SHOWY ORCHIS (noun)
  The noun SHOWY ORCHIS has 1 sense:

1. North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hoodplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SHOWY ORCHIS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Orchis spectabilis; purple-hooded orchis; purple orchis; showy orchis

Hypernyms ("showy orchis" is a kind of...):

orchis (any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes)


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