GENUS PLEIONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pleione mean? 

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

1. small genus of dwarf orchids; India to Thailand and Taiwan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PLEIONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of dwarf orchids; India to Thailand and Taiwan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pleione; Pleione

Hypernyms ("genus Pleione" 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 Pleione"):

Indian crocus (any of several dwarf orchids of the genus Pleione bearing one or two solitary white or pink to magenta or occasionally yellow flowers with slender stalks)

Holonyms ("genus Pleione" 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)