FROG ORCHID

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does frog orchid mean? 

• FROG ORCHID (noun)
  The noun FROG ORCHID has 2 senses:

1. any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria

2. orchid having hooded long-bracted green to yellow-green flowers suffused with purple

  Familiarity information: FROG ORCHID used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FROG ORCHID (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("frog 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)

Holonyms ("frog 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Orchid having hooded long-bracted green to yellow-green flowers suffused with purple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Coeloglossum viride; frog orchid

Hypernyms ("frog 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)

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

Coeloglossum; genus Coeloglossum (terrestrial orchids of cooler parts of North America and Europe: satyr orchid)