LESSER BUTTERFLY ORCHID

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Meaning:

South European orchid having fragrant greenish-white flowers; sometimes placed in genus Habenaria

Synonyms:

Habenaria bifolia; lesser butterfly orchid; Platanthera bifolia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("lesser butterfly 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 ("lesser butterfly orchid" is a member of...):

genus Platanthera; Platanthera (herbaceous terrestrial orchids of temperate northern and southern hemispheres)

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