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GENUS MILTONIA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of tropical American orchids
Synonyms:
genus Miltonia; Miltonia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Miltonia" 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 Miltonia"):
pansy orchid (any of various orchids of the genus Miltonia having solitary or loosely racemose showy broadly spreading flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Miltonia" 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)