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CATASETUM

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences

Synonyms:

Catasetum; genus Catasetum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Catasetum"):

Catasetum macrocarpum; jumping orchid (orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme; when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected)

Holonyms ("Catasetum" 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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