GENUS ORCHIS

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Meaning:

Type genus of the orchid family; hardy terrestrial orchids of the temperate the northern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Orchis" 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 Orchis"):

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

Holonyms ("genus Orchis" 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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