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GENUS GYMNADENIA

Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gymnadenia mean?

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

1. small genus of terrestrial orchids of North America and temperate Eurasia

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

Dictionary entry details

• GENUS GYMNADENIA (noun)

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Meaning:

Small genus of terrestrial orchids of North America and temperate Eurasia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Gymnadenia; Gymnadenia

Hypernyms ("genus Gymnadenia" 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 Gymnadenia"):

fragrant orchid; Gymnadenia conopsea (European orchid having dense spikes of fragrant pink or lilac or red flowers with conspicuous spurs)

Gymnadenia odoratissima; short-spurred fragrant orchid (similar to Gymnadenia conopsea but with smaller flowers on shorter stems and having much shorter spurs)

Holonyms ("genus Gymnadenia" 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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