CORYANTHES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Coryanthes mean? 

• CORYANTHES (noun)
  The noun CORYANTHES has 1 sense:

1. small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids

  Familiarity information: CORYANTHES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORYANTHES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Coryanthes; genus Coryanthes

Hypernyms ("Coryanthes" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Coryanthes"):

helmet orchid; helmetflower (any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process)

Holonyms ("Coryanthes" 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)