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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; cosmopolitanplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GENUS MALAXIS (noun)


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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