GENUS CALADENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Caladenia mean? 

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

1. terrestrial orchids of Australia to New Caledonia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CALADENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terrestrial orchids of Australia to New Caledonia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Caladenia" 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 Caladenia"):

caladenia (any of various orchids of the genus Caladenia)

Caladenia cairnsiana; zebra orchid (orchid with reddish linear leaves and panicle of purple-marked pale-yellow flowers with deep red or purple lip; southwestern Australia)

Holonyms ("genus Caladenia" 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)