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    HABENARIA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsisplay

    Synonyms:

    genus Habenaria; Habenaria

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

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

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

    Meronyms (members of "Habenaria"):

    fringed orchid; fringed orchis (any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip)

    frog orchid (any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria)

    rein orchid; rein orchis (any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip)

    Holonyms ("Habenaria" 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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