GENUS LIPARIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Liparis mean? 

• GENUS LIPARIS (noun)
  The noun GENUS LIPARIS has 2 senses:

1. genus of terrestrial and epiphytic orchids; pantropical to temperate

2. type genus of the Liparididae: snailfishes

  Familiarity information: GENUS LIPARIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS LIPARIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of terrestrial and epiphytic orchids; pantropical to temperate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Liparis" 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 Liparis"):

liparis (an orchid of the genus Liparis having few leaves and usually fairly small yellow-green or dull purple flowers in terminal racemes)

twayblade (an orchid of the genus Liparis having a pair of leaves)

fen orchid; fen orchis; Liparis loeselii (small terrestrial orchid of eastern North America and Europe having two nearly basal leaves and dull yellow-green racemose flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Liparis" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Type genus of the Liparididae: snailfishes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

genus Liparis; Liparis

Hypernyms ("genus Liparis" is a kind of...):

fish genus (any of various genus of fish)

Meronyms (members of "genus Liparis"):

Liparis liparis; sea snail; seasnail; snailfish (small tadpole-shaped cold-water fishes with pelvic fins forming a sucker; related to lumpfish)

Holonyms ("genus Liparis" is a member of...):

family Liparidae; family Liparididae; Liparidae; Liparididae (snailfishes)