VANDA

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Meaning:

Any of numerous showy orchids of the genus Vanda having many large flowers in loose racemes

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("vanda" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vanda"):

blue orchid; Vanda caerulea (famous orchid of northern India having large pale to deep lilac-blue flowers)

Holonyms ("vanda" is a member of...):

genus Vanda (genus of showy epiphytic orchids of Himalayas to Malaysia)

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