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HELMET ORCHID

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process

Synonyms:

helmet orchid; helmetflower

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("helmet orchid" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Holonyms ("helmet orchid" is a member of...):

Coryanthes; genus Coryanthes (small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood

Synonyms:

greenhood; helmet orchid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("helmet orchid" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Holonyms ("helmet orchid" is a member of...):

genus Pterostylis; Pterostylis (genus of terrestrial orchids of Australia and New Zealand and western Pacific)

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