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GENUS VANILLA
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Large genus of tropical climbing orchids; Old and New Worlds
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Vanilla" 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 Vanilla"):
vanilla (any of numerous climbing plants of the genus Vanilla having fleshy leaves and clusters of large waxy highly fragrant white or green or topaz flowers)
vanilla orchid; Vanilla planifolia (a climbing orchid bearing a podlike fruit yielding vanilla beans; widely cultivated from Florida southward throughout tropical America)
Holonyms ("genus Vanilla" 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)
