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GENUS COELOGLOSSUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Coeloglossum mean? 

GENUS COELOGLOSSUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS COELOGLOSSUM has 1 sense:

1. terrestrial orchids of cooler parts of North America and Europe: satyr orchidplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS COELOGLOSSUM (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Terrestrial orchids of cooler parts of North America and Europe: satyr orchid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Coeloglossum; genus Coeloglossum

Hypernyms ("genus Coeloglossum" 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 Coeloglossum"):

Coeloglossum bracteatum; satyr orchid (orchid with broad ovate leaves and long-bracted green very irregular flowers)

Coeloglossum viride; frog orchid (orchid having hooded long-bracted green to yellow-green flowers suffused with purple)

Holonyms ("genus Coeloglossum" 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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