PAPHIOPEDILUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paphiopedilum mean? 

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

1. horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPHIOPEDILUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Paphiopedilum; Paphiopedilum

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Paphiopedilum"):

Venus' slipper; Venus's shoe; Venus's slipper (any of various orchids of the genus Paphiopedilum having slender flower stalks bearing 1 to several waxy flowers with pouchlike lips)

Holonyms ("Paphiopedilum" 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)