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MILTONIA

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical American orchids

Synonyms:

genus Miltonia; Miltonia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Miltonia" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Miltonia"):

pansy orchid (any of various orchids of the genus Miltonia having solitary or loosely racemose showy broadly spreading flowers)

Holonyms ("Miltonia" 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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