BRASSAVOLA

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Meaning:

Any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7

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Nouns denoting plants

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

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Holonyms ("brassavola" is a member of...):

genus Brassavola (genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic rhizomatous orchids)

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