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BUTTERFLY ORCHIS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip

Synonyms:

butterfly orchid; butterfly orchis; Orchis papilionaceae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("butterfly orchis" is a kind of...):

orchis (any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip

Synonyms:

butterfly orchid; butterfly orchis; Encyclia venosa; Epidendrum venosum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("butterfly orchis" 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 ("butterfly orchis" is a member of...):

Encyclia; genus Encyclia (large genus of epiphytic and lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas and West Indies; formerly included in genus Epidendrum)

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