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    GENUS HEXALECTRIS

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    A monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceaeplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Hexalectris; Hexalectris

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("genus Hexalectris" 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 Hexalectris"):

    crested coral root; Hexalectris spicata (orchid with yellowish-brown flowers with dark veins; southeastern Arizona to the eastern United States)

    Hexalectris warnockii; Texas purple spike (orchid with slender nearly leafless reddish-brown stems with loose racemes of reddish-brown flowers; of open brushy woods of southeastern Arizona and central Texas)

    Holonyms ("genus Hexalectris" 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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