GENUS PHAIUS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of Asiatic and Australian terrestrial orchids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Phaius" 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 Phaius"):

phaius (an orchid of the genus Phaius having large plicate leaves and racemes of showy flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Phaius" 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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