GENUS HABENARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Habenaria mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS HABENARIA (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Habenaria; Habenaria

Hypernyms ("genus Habenaria" 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 Habenaria"):

fringed orchid; fringed orchis (any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip)

frog orchid (any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria)

rein orchid; rein orchis (any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip)

Holonyms ("genus Habenaria" 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)