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PHOLIDOTA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Pangolins; in some former classifications included in the order Edentata
Synonyms:
order Pholidota; Pholidota
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pholidota" is a kind of...):
animal order (the order of animals)
Meronyms (members of "Pholidota"):
family Manidae; Manidae (coextensive with the order Pholidota)
Holonyms ("Pholidota" is a member of...):
Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific
Synonyms:
genus Pholidota; Pholidota
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Pholidota" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Pholidota"):
rattlesnake orchid (any of various orchids of the genus Pholidota having numerous white to brown flowers in spiraling racemes clothed in slightly inflated bracts and resembling a rattlesnake's tail)
Holonyms ("Pholidota" 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)
