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GENUS PHOLIDOTA

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Meaning:

Genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific

Synonyms:

genus Pholidota; Pholidota

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Pholidota" 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 Pholidota"):

rattlesnake orchid (any of various orchids of the genus Pholidota having numerous white to brown flowers in spiraling racemes clothed in slightly inflated bracts and resembling a rattlesnake's tail)

Holonyms ("genus Pholidota" 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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