GENUS PHALAENOPSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Phalaenopsis mean? 

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

1. genus of ornamental epiphytic orchids of Asia and Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS PHALAENOPSIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of ornamental epiphytic orchids of Asia and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Phalaenopsis; Phalaenopsis

Hypernyms ("genus Phalaenopsis" 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 Phalaenopsis"):

moth orchid; moth plant (any of various orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis having often drooping glossy broad obovate or oval leaves usually dark green flushed purple or mottled grey and silver)

butterfly plant; Phalaenopsis amabilis (orchid having large elliptic to obovate fleshy leaves and fragrant pink-and-white flowers dotted with red)

Holonyms ("genus Phalaenopsis" 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)