TEXAS PURPLE SPIKE

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Meaning:

Orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas

Synonyms:

Hexalectris warnockii; Texas purple spike

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Texas purple spike" 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 ("Texas purple spike" is a member of...):

genus Hexalectris; Hexalectris (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae)

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