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    REIN ORCHID

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lipplay

    Synonyms:

    rein orchid; rein orchis

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("rein orchid" is a kind of...):

    orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rein orchid"):

    bog candles; bog rein orchid; Habenaria dilatata (orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America)

    elegant Habenaria; Habenaria elegans (slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers)

    coastal rein orchid; Habenaria greenei (stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers)

    Habenaria orbiculata; round-leaved rein orchid (orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States)

    Alaska rein orchid; Habenaria unalascensis (similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers; Alaska to Baja California and east to the Dakotas and Colorado)

    Holonyms ("rein orchid" is a member of...):

    genus Habenaria; Habenaria (chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis)

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