GENUS BLETIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Bletia mean? • GENUS BLETIA (noun)
The noun GENUS BLETIA has 1 sense:
1. genus of tropical American terrestrial orchids with large purple or pink flowers
Familiarity information: GENUS BLETIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS BLETIA (noun)
Meaning:
Genus of tropical American terrestrial orchids with large purple or pink flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Bletia" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "genus Bletia"):
bletia (any of various orchids of the genus Bletia having pseudobulbs and erect leafless racemes of large purple or pink flowers)
Holonyms ("genus Bletia" 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)
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