GENUS BLETIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Bletia mean? 

• GENUS BLETIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BLETIA has 1 sense:

1. genus of tropical American terrestrial orchids with large purple or pink flowers

  Familiarity information: GENUS BLETIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BLETIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical American terrestrial orchids with large purple or pink flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Bletia" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "genus Bletia"):

bletia (any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudobulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Bletia" 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)