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TEXAS PURPLE SPIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Texas purple spike mean?
• TEXAS PURPLE SPIKE (noun)
The noun TEXAS PURPLE SPIKE has 1 sense:
1. orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas
Familiarity information: TEXAS PURPLE SPIKE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Hexalectris warnockii; Texas purple spike
Hypernyms ("Texas purple spike" is a kind of...):
orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)
Holonyms ("Texas purple spike" is a member of...):
genus Hexalectris; Hexalectris (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae)
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