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VANILLA ORCHID
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America
Synonyms:
vanilla orchid; Vanilla planifolia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("vanilla orchid" is a kind of...):
vanilla (any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers)
Meronyms (parts of "vanilla orchid"):
vanilla bean (long bean-like fruit; seeds are used as flavoring)
Holonyms ("vanilla orchid" is a member of...):
genus Vanilla (large genus of tropical climbing orchids; Old and New Worlds)
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