GENUS BRASSAVOLA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Brassavola mean? • GENUS BRASSAVOLA (noun)
The noun GENUS BRASSAVOLA has 1 sense:
1. genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic rhizomatous orchids
Familiarity information: GENUS BRASSAVOLA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS BRASSAVOLA (noun)
Meaning:
Genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic rhizomatous orchids
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("genus Brassavola" 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 Brassavola"):
brassavola (any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7)
Holonyms ("genus Brassavola" 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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