SELENIPEDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Selenipedium mean? 

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

1. genus of tall reedlike tropical American orchids; includes species with pods used locally as a substitute for vanilla

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SELENIPEDIUM (noun)

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Meaning:

Genus of tall reedlike tropical American orchids; includes species with pods used locally as a substitute for vanilla

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Selenipedium; Selenipedium

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

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

Holonyms ("Selenipedium" 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)