PURPLE ORCHIS

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Meaning:

North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood

Synonyms:

Orchis spectabilis; purple-hooded orchis; purple orchis; showy orchis

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("purple orchis" is a kind of...):

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

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