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GENUS PHAIUS
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Genus of Asiatic and Australian terrestrial orchids
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Phaius" 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 Phaius"):
phaius (an orchid of the genus Phaius having large plicate leaves and racemes of showy flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Phaius" 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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