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REIN ORCHID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does rein orchid mean?
• REIN ORCHID (noun)
The noun REIN ORCHID has 1 sense:
1. any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip
Familiarity information: REIN ORCHID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
rein orchid; rein orchis
Hypernyms ("rein orchid" is a kind of...):
orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "rein orchid"):
bog candles; bog rein orchid; Habenaria dilatata (orchid with spikes of many fragrant white flowers on erect leafy stems; of wet or boggy ground through most of the West and northern North America)
elegant Habenaria; Habenaria elegans (slender inland rein orchid similar to coastal rein orchid but with pale greenish-yellow flowers)
coastal rein orchid; Habenaria greenei (stout orchid of central California to northern Washington having racemes of white fragrant bilaterally symmetrical flowers)
Habenaria orbiculata; round-leaved rein orchid (orchid having a raceme of large greenish-white flowers on a single flower stalk growing between two elliptic or round basal leaves lying on the ground; from northern Oregon and Montana across Canada to the eastern United States)
Alaska rein orchid; Habenaria unalascensis (similar to coastal rein orchid but with smaller flowers; Alaska to Baja California and east to the Dakotas and Colorado)
Holonyms ("rein orchid" is a member of...):
genus Habenaria; Habenaria (chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis)
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