PHOLIDOTA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Pholidota mean? 

• PHOLIDOTA (noun)
  The noun PHOLIDOTA has 2 senses:

1. genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific

2. pangolins; in some former classifications included in the order Edentata

  Familiarity information: PHOLIDOTA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PHOLIDOTA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Pholidota; Pholidota

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Pholidota"):

rattlesnake orchid (any of various orchids of the genus Pholidota having numerous white to brown flowers in spiraling racemes clothed in slightly inflated bracts and resembling a rattlesnake's tail)

Holonyms ("Pholidota" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Pangolins; in some former classifications included in the order Edentata

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Synonyms:

order Pholidota; Pholidota

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

animal order (the order of animals)

Meronyms (members of "Pholidota"):

family Manidae; Manidae (coextensive with the order Pholidota)

Holonyms ("Pholidota" is a member of...):

Eutheria; subclass Eutheria (all mammals except monotremes and marsupials)