HELLEBORINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does helleborine mean? 

• HELLEBORINE (noun)
  The noun HELLEBORINE has 3 senses:

1. any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme

2. any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis

3. any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera

  Familiarity information: HELLEBORINE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HELLEBORINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

helleborine; rattlesnake plantain

Hypernyms ("helleborine" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Holonyms ("helleborine" is a member of...):

genus Goodyera; Goodyera (genus of small orchids of the northern hemisphere with creeping rhizomes and stalked ovate leaves and small flowers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("helleborine" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "helleborine"):

Epipactis helleborine (European orchid with spikes of green and pinkish or purplish flowers)

chatterbox; Epipactis gigantea; giant helleborine; stream orchid (orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf)

Holonyms ("helleborine" is a member of...):

Epipactis; genus Epipactis (genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Any of several orchids of the genus Cephalanthera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("helleborine" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "helleborine"):

Cephalanthera rubra; red helleborine (orchid of Mediterranean and Asia having a lax spike of bright rose-pink flowers)

Holonyms ("helleborine" is a member of...):

Cephalanthera; genus Cephalanthera (small genus of temperate Old World terrestrial orchids)