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HABENARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis
Synonyms:
genus Habenaria; Habenaria
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Habenaria" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Habenaria"):
fringed orchid; fringed orchis (any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip)
frog orchid (any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria)
rein orchid; rein orchis (any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip)
Holonyms ("Habenaria" 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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