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ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID
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Dictionary entry overview: What does round-leaved rein orchid mean?
• ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID (noun)
The noun ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID has 1 sense:
1. 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
Familiarity information: ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• ROUND-LEAVED REIN ORCHID (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Habenaria orbiculata; round-leaved rein orchid
Hypernyms ("round-leaved rein orchid" is a kind of...):
rein orchid; rein orchis (any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip)
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