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GENUS HEXALECTRIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae
Synonyms:
genus Hexalectris; Hexalectris
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Hexalectris" 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 Hexalectris"):
crested coral root; Hexalectris spicata (orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins; southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States)
Hexalectris warnockii; Texas purple spike (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)
Holonyms ("genus Hexalectris" 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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