GENUS CYMBIDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Cymbidium mean? 

• GENUS CYMBIDIUM (noun)
  The noun GENUS CYMBIDIUM has 1 sense:

1. genus of tropical epiphytic or terrestrial Old World orchids; one of the most popular orchid genera

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS CYMBIDIUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of tropical epiphytic or terrestrial Old World orchids; one of the most popular orchid genera

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Cymbidium" 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 Cymbidium"):

cymbid; cymbidium (any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Cymbidium" 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)