PHALAENOPSIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Phalaenopsis mean? 

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

1. genus of ornamental epiphytic orchids of Asia and Australia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHALAENOPSIS (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of ornamental epiphytic orchids of Asia and Australia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Phalaenopsis; Phalaenopsis

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Phalaenopsis"):

moth orchid; moth plant (any of various orchids of the genus Phalaenopsis having often drooping glossy broad obovate or oval leaves usually dark green flushed purple or mottled grey and silver)

butterfly plant; Phalaenopsis amabilis (orchid having large elliptic to obovate fleshy leaves and fragrant pink-and-white flowers dotted with red)

Holonyms ("Phalaenopsis" 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)