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GENUS BLETILLA

• GENUS BLETILLA (noun)
The noun GENUS BLETILLA has 1 sense:

1. small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia

Familiarity information: GENUS BLETILLA used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS BLETILLA (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Bletilla; genus Bletilla

Hypernyms ("genus Bletilla" 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 Bletilla"):

Bletia striata; Bletilla striata (Japanese orchid with white-striped leaves and slender erect racemes of rose to magenta flowers; often cultivated; sometimes placed in genus Bletia)

Holonyms ("genus Bletilla" 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)

"A creaking door hangs longest."
(English proverb)
"Don't strike the hot iron with an wooden hammer."
(Albanian proverb)
"An unshod mocks a shoe."
(Arabic proverb)
"An idle man is up to no good."
(Corsican proverb)

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