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EPIPACTIS

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Meaning:

Genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowersplay

Synonyms:

Epipactis; genus Epipactis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Epipactis"):

helleborine (any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis)

Epipactis helleborine (European orchid with spikes of green and pinkish or purplish flowers)

chatterbox; Epipactis gigantea; giant helleborine; stream orchid (orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf)

Holonyms ("Epipactis" 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)

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