MALAXIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Malaxis mean? 

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

1. large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALAXIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Malaxis; Malaxis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Malaxis"):

green adder's mouth; Malaxis-unifolia; Malaxis ophioglossoides (North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals)

Holonyms ("Malaxis" 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)