MALAXIS OPHIOGLOSSOIDES

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Meaning:

North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals

Synonyms:

green adder's mouth; Malaxis-unifolia; Malaxis ophioglossoides

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Malaxis ophioglossoides" 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 ("Malaxis ophioglossoides" is a member of...):

genus Malaxis; Malaxis (large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan)

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