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FRINGED ORCHID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
Synonyms:
fringed orchid; fringed orchis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("fringed orchid" is a kind of...):
orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "fringed orchid"):
Habenaria albiflora; white fringed orchid; white fringed orchis (bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers)
Habenaria fimbriata; purple-fringed orchid; purple-fringed orchis (North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers)
Habenaria hookeri; Hooker's orchid (a long-spurred orchid with base leaves and petals converging under the upper sepal)
green fringed orchis; Habenaria lacera; ragged-fringed orchid; ragged orchid; ragged orchis (fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated)
Habenaria leucophaea; prairie orchid; prairie white-fringed orchis (orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers)
Habenaria nivea; snowy orchid (slender fringed orchid of eastern North America having white flowers)
Habenaria peramoena; purple fringeless orchid; purple fringeless orchis (orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions)
Habenaria psycodes; purple-fringed orchid; purple-fringed orchis (North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers)
Holonyms ("fringed orchid" is a member of...):
genus Habenaria; Habenaria (chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis)
