MILTONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Miltonia mean? 

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

1. genus of tropical American orchids

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MILTONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of tropical American orchids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Miltonia; Miltonia

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Miltonia"):

pansy orchid (any of various orchids of the genus Miltonia having solitary or loosely racemose showy broadly spreading flowers)

Holonyms ("Miltonia" 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)