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BUTTERFLY ORCHIS

• BUTTERFLY ORCHIS (noun)
The noun BUTTERFLY ORCHIS has 2 senses:

1. Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip
2. Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip

Familiarity information: BUTTERFLY ORCHIS used as a noun is rare.

• BUTTERFLY ORCHIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

butterfly orchis; Encyclia venosa; Epidendrum venosum; butterfly orchid

Hypernyms ("butterfly orchis" is a kind of...):

orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)

Holonyms ("butterfly orchis" is a member of...):

Encyclia; genus Encyclia (large genus of epiphytic and lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas and West Indies; formerly included in genus Epidendrum)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Orchis papilionaceae; butterfly orchis; butterfly orchid

Hypernyms ("butterfly orchis" is a kind of...):

orchis (any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes)

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