CORALLORHIZA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Corallorhiza mean? 

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

1. genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; widely distributed in temperate regions

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CORALLORHIZA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; widely distributed in temperate regions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Corallorhiza; genus Corallorhiza

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Corallorhiza"):

coral root (a wildflower of the genus Corallorhiza growing from a hard mass of rhizomes associated with a fungus that aids in absorbing nutrients from the forest floor)

Holonyms ("Corallorhiza" 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)