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EBUROPHYTON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eburophyton mean? 

EBUROPHYTON (noun)
  The noun EBUROPHYTON has 1 sense:

1. a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceaeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


EBUROPHYTON (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Eburophyton; genus Eburophyton

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Eburophyton"):

Eburophyton austinae; phantom orchid; snow orchid (waxy white nearly leafless plant with stems in clusters and racemes of white flowers; northwestern United States to northern California and east to Idaho)

Holonyms ("Eburophyton" 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)


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