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GENUS LISTERA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem; found in temperate Asia and North America and Europe
Synonyms:
genus Listera; Listera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Listera" 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 Listera"):
broad-leaved twayblade; Listera convallarioides (small orchid with two elliptic leaves and a slender raceme of small green flowers; western North America)
lesser twayblade; Listera cordata (orchid having two triangular leaves and a short lax raceme of green to rust-colored flowers with the lip flushed mauve; Europe and Asia and North America and Greenland)
Listera ovata; twayblade (orchid having a pair of ovate leaves and a long slender raceme of green flowers sometimes tinged red-brown; Europe to central Asia)
Holonyms ("genus Listera" 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)
