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GENUS PTEROSTYLIS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Pterostylis mean?
• GENUS PTEROSTYLIS (noun)
The noun GENUS PTEROSTYLIS has 1 sense:
1. genus of terrestrial orchids of Australia and New Zealand and western Pacific
Familiarity information: GENUS PTEROSTYLIS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of terrestrial orchids of Australia and New Zealand and western Pacific
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
genus Pterostylis; Pterostylis
Hypernyms ("genus Pterostylis" 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 Pterostylis"):
greenhood; helmet orchid (any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood)
Holonyms ("genus Pterostylis" 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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