GOODYERA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Goodyera mean? 

• GOODYERA (noun)
  The noun GOODYERA has 1 sense:

1. genus of small orchids of the northern hemisphere with creeping rhizomes and stalked ovate leaves and small flowers

  Familiarity information: GOODYERA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GOODYERA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of small orchids of the northern hemisphere with creeping rhizomes and stalked ovate leaves and small flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Goodyera; Goodyera

Hypernyms ("Goodyera" is a kind of...):

liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "Goodyera"):

helleborine; rattlesnake plantain (any of several small temperate and tropical orchids having mottled or striped leaves and spikes of small yellowish-white flowers in a twisted raceme)

Holonyms ("Goodyera" 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)