POGONIA DIVARICATA

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Meaning:

Orchid of northeastern United States with magenta-pink flowers having funnel-shaped lip; sometimes placed in genus Pogonia

Synonyms:

Cleistes divaricata; funnel-crest rosebud orchid; Pogonia divaricata; spreading pogonia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Pogonia divaricata" 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 ("Pogonia divaricata" is a member of...):

Cleistes; genus Cleistes (terrestrial orchids of North and South America having slender fibrous roots; allied to genus Pogonia)

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