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GENUS CORALLORHIZA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Corallorhiza mean?
• GENUS CORALLORHIZA (noun)
The noun GENUS 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: GENUS CORALLORHIZA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus 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)
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