DENDROBIUM

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Meaning:

A plant of the genus Dendrobium having stems like cane and usually showy racemose flowers

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("dendrobium" 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 ("dendrobium" is a member of...):

genus Dendrobium (large genus and variable genus of chiefly epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Asia and Australasia)

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