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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 lipplay

  Familiarity information: REIN ORCHID used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


REIN ORCHID (noun)


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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