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GENUS STELIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of small caespitose orchids of tropical America
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Stelis" 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 Stelis"):
stelis (any of various small tropical American orchids of the genus Stelis having long slender racemes of numerous small to minute flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Stelis" 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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