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GENUS EPIPACTIS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers
Synonyms:
Epipactis; genus Epipactis
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus 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)
