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SPIRANTHES SPIRALIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Spiranthes spiralis mean?
• SPIRANTHES SPIRALIS (noun)
The noun SPIRANTHES SPIRALIS has 1 sense:
1. European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers
Familiarity information: SPIRANTHES SPIRALIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
European ladies' tresses; Spiranthes spiralis
Hypernyms ("Spiranthes spiralis" is a kind of...):
ladies' tresses; lady's tresses (an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers)
Holonyms ("Spiranthes spiralis" is a member of...):
genus Spiranthes; Spiranthes (large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids)
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