PTEROSTYLIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pterostylis mean? 

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

1. genus of terrestrial orchids of Australia and New Zealand and western Pacific

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PTEROSTYLIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of terrestrial orchids of Australia and New Zealand and western Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pterostylis; Pterostylis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Pterostylis"):

greenhood; helmet orchid (any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood)

Holonyms ("Pterostylis" 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)