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GENUS DACTYLORHIZA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Dactylorhiza mean?

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

1. genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS DACTYLORHIZA (noun)

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genus Dactylorhiza ^{[BACK TO TOP]}

Meaning:

Genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Dactylorhiza; genus Dactylorhiza

Hypernyms ("genus Dactylorhiza" 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 Dactylorhiza"):

marsh orchid (any of several orchids of the genus Dactylorhiza having fingerlike tuberous roots; Europe and Mediterranean region)

common spotted orchid; Dactylorhiza fuchsii; Dactylorhiza maculata fuchsii (European orchid having lanceolate leaves spotted purple and pink to white or mauve flowers spotted or lined deep red or purple)

Holonyms ("genus Dactylorhiza" 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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