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PAPHIOPEDILUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium
Synonyms:
genus Paphiopedilum; Paphiopedilum
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Paphiopedilum" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Paphiopedilum"):
Venus' slipper; Venus's shoe; Venus's slipper (any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips)
Holonyms ("Paphiopedilum" 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)
