FRINGED ORCHIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does fringed orchis mean? 

• FRINGED ORCHIS (noun)
  The noun FRINGED ORCHIS has 1 sense:

1. any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• FRINGED ORCHIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

fringed orchid; fringed orchis

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

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fringed orchis"):

Habenaria albiflora; white fringed orchid; white fringed orchis (bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers)

Habenaria fimbriata; purple-fringed orchid; purple-fringed orchis (North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers)

Habenaria hookeri; Hooker's orchid (a long-spurred orchid with base leaves and petals converging under the upper sepal)

green fringed orchis; Habenaria lacera; ragged-fringed orchid; ragged orchid; ragged orchis (fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated)

Habenaria leucophaea; prairie orchid; prairie white-fringed orchis (orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers)

Habenaria nivea; snowy orchid (slender fringed orchid of eastern North America having white flowers)

Habenaria peramoena; purple fringeless orchid; purple fringeless orchis (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)

Habenaria psycodes; purple-fringed orchid; purple-fringed orchis (North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers)

Holonyms ("fringed orchis" is a member of...):

genus Habenaria; Habenaria (chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis)