GENUS SOBRALIA

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical American orchids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Sobralia" 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 Sobralia"):

sobralia (any of various showy orchids of the genus Sobralia having leafy stems and bright-colored solitary or racemose flowers similar to those of genus Cattleya)

Holonyms ("genus Sobralia" 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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