GENUS VANDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Vanda mean? 

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

1. genus of showy epiphytic orchids of Himalayas to Malaysia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS VANDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of showy epiphytic orchids of Himalayas to Malaysia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Vanda" 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 Vanda"):

vanda (any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes)

blue orchid; Vanda caerulea (famous orchid of northern India having large pale to deep lilac-blue flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Vanda" 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)