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GOODYERA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of small orchids of the northern hemisphere with creeping rhizomes and stalked ovate leaves and small flowersplay

Synonyms:

genus Goodyera; Goodyera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Goodyera" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Goodyera"):

helleborine; rattlesnake plantain (any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme)

Holonyms ("Goodyera" 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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