BRASSAVOLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does brassavola mean? 

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

1. any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRASSAVOLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Holonyms ("brassavola" is a member of...):

genus Brassavola (genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic rhizomatous orchids)