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GENUS SOBRALIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Sobralia mean?
• GENUS SOBRALIA (noun)
The noun GENUS SOBRALIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of tropical American orchids
Familiarity information: GENUS SOBRALIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of tropical American orchids
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Sobralia" 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 Sobralia"):
sobralia (any of various showy orchids of the genus Sobralia having leafy stems and bright-colored solitary or racemose flowers similar to those of genus Cattleya)
Holonyms ("genus Sobralia" 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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