GENUS STELIS

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Meaning:

Genus of small caespitose orchids of tropical America

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Stelis" 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 Stelis"):

stelis (any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus Stelis having long slender racemes of numerous small to minute flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Stelis" 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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