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GENUS PLECTORRHIZA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Plectorrhiza mean?
• GENUS PLECTORRHIZA (noun)
The noun GENUS PLECTORRHIZA has 1 sense:
1. small genus of Australian orchids
Familiarity information: GENUS PLECTORRHIZA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of Australian orchids
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Plectorrhiza; Plectorrhiza
Hypernyms ("genus Plectorrhiza" 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 Plectorrhiza"):
tangle orchid (an orchid of the genus Plectorrhiza having tangled roots and long wiry stems bearing lax racemes of small fragrant green flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Plectorrhiza" 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)
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