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    GOODYERA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Genus of small orchids of the northern hemisphere with creeping rhizomes and stalked ovate leaves and small flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Goodyera; Goodyera

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Goodyera"):

    helleborine; rattlesnake plantain (any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme)

    Holonyms ("Goodyera" 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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