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GENUS LIPARIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Type genus of the Liparididae: snailfishes
Synonyms:
genus Liparis; Liparis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Liparis" is a kind of...):
fish genus (any of various genus of fish)
Meronyms (members of "genus Liparis"):
Liparis liparis; sea snail; seasnail; snailfish (small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish)
Holonyms ("genus Liparis" is a member of...):
family Liparidae; family Liparididae; Liparidae; Liparididae (snailfishes)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Genus of terrestrial and epiphytic orchids; pantropical to temperate
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Liparis" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Liparis"):
liparis (an orchid of the genus Liparis having few leaves and usually fairly small yellow-green or dull purple flowers in terminal racemes)
twayblade (an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves)
fen orchid; fen orchis; Liparis loeselii (small terrestrial orchid of eastern North America and Europe having two nearly basal leaves and dull yellow-green racemose flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Liparis" 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)
