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GENUS BRASSIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Brassia mean?
• GENUS BRASSIA (noun)
The noun GENUS BRASSIA has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: GENUS BRASSIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Brassia; genus Brassia
Hypernyms ("genus Brassia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Brassia"):
Brassia lawrenceana; spider orchid (South American orchid with spiderlike pale-yellow to pale-green flowers)
Brassia verrucosa; spider orchid (Central American orchid having spiderlike flowers with prominent green warts)
Holonyms ("genus Brassia" 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)
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