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GENUS PHOLIDOTA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pholidota mean?
• GENUS PHOLIDOTA (noun)
The noun GENUS PHOLIDOTA has 1 sense:
1. genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific
Familiarity information: GENUS PHOLIDOTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pholidota; Pholidota
Hypernyms ("genus Pholidota" 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 Pholidota"):
rattlesnake orchid (any of various orchids of the genus Pholidota having numerous white to brown flowers in spiraling racemes clothed in slightly inflated bracts and resembling a rattlesnake's tail)
Holonyms ("genus Pholidota" 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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