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GENUS MALAXIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Malaxis mean?
• GENUS MALAXIS (noun)
The noun GENUS MALAXIS has 1 sense:
1. large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan
Familiarity information: GENUS MALAXIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Malaxis; Malaxis
Hypernyms ("genus Malaxis" 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 Malaxis"):
green adder's mouth; Malaxis-unifolia; Malaxis ophioglossoides (North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals)
Holonyms ("genus Malaxis" 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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