SPIRANTHES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Spiranthes mean? 

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

1. large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPIRANTHES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Spiranthes; Spiranthes

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

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

Meronyms (members of "Spiranthes"):

ladies' tresses; lady's tresses (an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers)

screw augur; Spiranthes cernua (an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having tall erect densely flowered spiraling clusters of creamy white vanilla-scented flowers; widely distributed especially in low damp places of eastern and central North America)

hooded ladies' tresses; Spiranthes romanzoffiana (orchid having dense clusters of gently spiraling creamy white flowers with 2 upper petals forming a hood; western North America)

Spiranthes porrifolia; western ladies' tresses (similar to Spiranthes romanzoffiana; western United States)

European ladies' tresses; Spiranthes spiralis (European orchid having shorter racemes of strongly spiraling snow-white flowers)

Holonyms ("Spiranthes" 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)