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BRASSIA LAWRENCEANA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Brassia lawrenceana mean?
• BRASSIA LAWRENCEANA (noun)
The noun BRASSIA LAWRENCEANA has 1 sense:
1. South American orchid with spiderlike pale-yellow to pale-green flowers
Familiarity information: BRASSIA LAWRENCEANA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
South American orchid with spiderlike pale-yellow to pale-green flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Brassia lawrenceana; spider orchid
Hypernyms ("Brassia lawrenceana" 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 ("Brassia lawrenceana" is a member of...):
Brassia; genus Brassia (genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips: spider orchids)
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