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    EPIPACTIS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    Epipactis; genus Epipactis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Epipactis"):

    helleborine (any of various orchids of the genus Epipactis)

    Epipactis helleborine (European orchid with spikes of green and pinkish or purplish flowers)

    chatterbox; Epipactis gigantea; giant helleborine; stream orchid (orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf)

    Holonyms ("Epipactis" 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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