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BLETILLA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia

Synonyms:

Bletilla; genus Bletilla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Bletilla"):

Bletia striata; Bletilla striata (Japanese orchid with white-striped leaves and slender erect racemes of rose to magenta flowers; often cultivated; sometimes placed in genus Bletia)

Holonyms ("Bletilla" 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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