ORCHIS PAPILIONACEAE

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Meaning:

Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip

Synonyms:

butterfly orchid; butterfly orchis; Orchis papilionaceae

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Orchis papilionaceae" is a kind of...):

orchis (any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes)

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