BLETILLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bletilla mean? 

• BLETILLA (noun)
  The noun BLETILLA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia

  Familiarity information: BLETILLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLETILLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bletilla; genus Bletilla

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Bletilla"):

Bletia striata; Bletilla striata (Japanese orchid with white-striped leaves and slender erect racemes of rose to magenta flowers; often cultivated; sometimes placed in genus Bletia)

Holonyms ("Bletilla" 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)