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ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does round-leaved rein orchid mean? 

ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID (noun)
  The noun ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID has 1 sense:

1. orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United Statesplay

  Familiarity information: ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Habenaria orbiculata; round-leaved rein orchid

Hypernyms ("round-leaved rein orchid" is a kind of...):

rein orchid; rein orchis (any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip)


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