GENUS CALYPSO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Calypso mean? 

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

1. one species found throughout much of northern North America and Eurasia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CALYPSO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One species found throughout much of northern North America and Eurasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Holonyms ("genus Calypso" 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)