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PLEIONE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Pleione mean?
• PLEIONE (noun)
The noun PLEIONE has 1 sense:
1. small genus of dwarf orchids; India to Thailand and Taiwan
Familiarity information: PLEIONE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small genus of dwarf orchids; India to Thailand and Taiwan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pleione; Pleione
Hypernyms ("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 "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 ("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)
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