HEXALECTRIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hexalectris mean? 

• HEXALECTRIS (noun)
  The noun HEXALECTRIS has 1 sense:

1. a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae

  Familiarity information: HEXALECTRIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEXALECTRIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Hexalectris; Hexalectris

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Hexalectris"):

crested coral root; Hexalectris spicata (orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins; southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States)

Hexalectris warnockii; Texas purple spike (orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas)

Holonyms ("Hexalectris" 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)