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GENUS CYMBIDIUM
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of tropical epiphytic or terrestrial Old World orchids; one of the most popular orchid genera
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Cymbidium" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Cymbidium"):
cymbid; cymbidium (any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Cymbidium" 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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