GENUS PHAIUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Phaius mean? 

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

1. genus of Asiatic and Australian terrestrial orchids

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PHAIUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of Asiatic and Australian terrestrial orchids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Phaius" 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 Phaius"):

phaius (an orchid of the genus Phaius having large plicate leaves and racemes of showy flowers)

Holonyms ("genus Phaius" 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)