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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 orchidsplay

  Familiarity information: GENUS BRASSIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS BRASSIA (noun)


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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