Dictionary entry details
• ORCHIDACEAE (noun)
Meaning:
Enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae
Hypernyms ("Orchidaceae" is a kind of...):
liliopsid family; monocot family (family of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)
Meronyms (members of "Orchidaceae"):
orchid; orchidaceous plant (any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors)
genus Orchis (type genus of the orchid family; hardy terrestrial orchids of the temperate the northern hemisphere)
genus Aerides (epiphytic orchids of tropical Asia having stiff leaves and fragrant white flowers in arching racemes)
Angraecum; genus Angraecum; genus Angrecum (genus of tropical Old World epiphytic orchids with showy flowers sometimes grotesque)
Anoectochilus; genus Anoectochilus (genus of delicate Asiatic orchids)
Aplectrum; genus Aplectrum (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae)
genus Arethusa (genus of bog orchids of North America and Japan)
genus Bletia (genus of tropical American terrestrial orchids with large purple or pink flowers)
Bletilla; genus Bletilla (small genus of chiefly east Asiatic hardy terrestrial orchids similar to genus Bletia)
genus Brassavola (genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic rhizomatous orchids)
Brassia; genus Brassia (genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids having striking axillary racemes of yellow to green spiderlike flowers with long slender sepals and warty lips: spider orchids)
genus Caladenia (terrestrial orchids of Australia to New Caledonia)
genus Calanthe (large and widely distributed genus of terrestrial orchids)
Calopogon; genus Calopogon (terrestrial orchids of North America)
genus Calypso (one species found throughout much of northern North America and Eurasia)
Catasetum; genus Catasetum (genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences)
genus Cattleya (large and highly valued genus of beautiful tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids; the typical orchids; known in many varieties)
Cephalanthera; genus Cephalanthera (small genus of temperate Old World terrestrial orchids)
Cleistes; genus Cleistes (terrestrial orchids of North and South America having slender fibrous roots; allied to genus Pogonia)
Coeloglossum; genus Coeloglossum (terrestrial orchids of cooler parts of North America and Europe: satyr orchid)
genus Coelogyne (large diverse genus of tropical Asiatic epiphytic orchids)
Corallorhiza; genus Corallorhiza (genus of leafless root-parasitic orchids having small purplish or yellowish racemose flowers with lobed lips; widely distributed in temperate regions)
Coryanthes; genus Coryanthes (small genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic orchids)
Cycnoches; genus Cycnoches (genus of epiphytic or terrestrial tropical American orchids)
genus Cymbidium (genus of tropical epiphytic or terrestrial Old World orchids; one of the most popular orchid genera)
Cypripedium; genus Cypripedium (genus of chiefly American perennial leafy-stemmed orchids: lady's slippers; sometimes includes species of genus Paphiopedilum)
Dactylorhiza; genus Dactylorhiza (genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Asia and North Africa)
genus Dendrobium (large genus and variable genus of chiefly epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Asia and Australasia)
genus Disa (genus of showy tropical African terrestrial orchids)
Dracula; genus Dracula (comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants having bizarre and often sinister-looking flowers with pendulous scapes and motile lips)
Dryadella; genus Dryadella (comprises tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: very dwarf plants having short tufted and usually unifoliate stems with usually solitary flowers)
Eburophyton; genus Eburophyton (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae)
Encyclia; genus Encyclia (large genus of epiphytic and lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas and West Indies; formerly included in genus Epidendrum)
Epidendrum; genus Epidendrum (large and variable genus of terrestrial or epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas; some native to United States)
Epipactis; genus Epipactis (genus of hardy orchids with leafy-bracted racemes of greenish or purplish irregular flowers)
genus Glossodia; Glossodia (small genus of Australian orchids)
genus Goodyera; Goodyera (genus of small orchids of the northern hemisphere with creeping rhizomes and stalked ovate leaves and small flowers)
genus Grammatophyllum; Grammatophyllum (small genus of large epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of southeastern Asia to Polynesia; the giants of the Orchidaceae having long narrow leaves and drooping flower clusters often 6 feet long)
genus Gymnadenia; Gymnadenia (small genus of terrestrial orchids of North America and temperate Eurasia)
genus Gymnadeniopsis; Gymnadeniopsis (genus of North American terrestrial orchids usually included in genus Habenaria)
genus Habenaria; Habenaria (chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis)
genus Hexalectris; Hexalectris (a monocotyledonous genus of the family Orchidaceae)
genus Himantoglossum; Himantoglossum (small genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and Mediterranean region)
genus Laelia (large genus of mostly epiphytic or lithophytic Central and South American orchids of various sizes)
genus Liparis (genus of terrestrial and epiphytic orchids; pantropical to temperate)
genus Listera; Listera (genus of terrestrial orchids having usually a single pair of broad shining leaves near the middle of the stem; found in temperate Asia and North America and Europe)
genus Malaxis; Malaxis (large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan)
genus Masdevallia (large genus of tropical American mostly epiphytic orchids whose flowers have sepals fused at the base forming a tube; includes orchids sometimes placed in genera Dracula and Dryadella and Scaphosepalum)
genus Maxillaria (large genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids with persistent leathery leaves and single-flowered scapes)
genus Miltonia; Miltonia (genus of tropical American orchids)
genus Odontoglossum (large and important genus of tropical American mostly epiphytic orchids; some of the most widely grown species are often placed in other genera)
genus Oncidium (large genus of showy epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial orchids of tropical and subtropical America)
genus Ophrys; Ophrys (a hardy genus of terrestrial orchids of Europe and northern Africa and western Asia)
genus Paphiopedilum; Paphiopedilum (horticulturally important genus of mainly terrestrial orchids including many hybrids; southeastern Asia and Indonesia to Philippines and Solomon Islands; Paphiopedilum species sometimes included in genus Cypripedium)
genus Phaius (genus of Asiatic and Australian terrestrial orchids)
genus Phalaenopsis; Phalaenopsis (genus of ornamental epiphytic orchids of Asia and Australia)
genus Pholidota; Pholidota (genus of mostly epiphytic orchids of Indonesia and the western Pacific)
genus Phragmipedium; Phragmipedium (genus of tropical American orchid species often included in genus Cypripedium or Paphiopedilum and Selenipedium: lady slippers)
genus Platanthera; Platanthera (herbaceous terrestrial orchids of temperate northern and southern hemispheres)
genus Plectorrhiza; Plectorrhiza (small genus of Australian orchids)
genus Pleione; Pleione (small genus of dwarf orchids; India to Thailand and Taiwan)
genus Pleurothallis (large genus of epiphytic or lithophytic orchids of tropical America)
genus Pogonia (small but widely distributed genus of orchids closely related to genus Cleistes;: of damp or boggy areas of north temperate zone)
genus Psychopsis; Psychopsis (epiphytic orchids of Central and South America formerly included in genus Oncidium)
genus Pterostylis; Pterostylis (genus of terrestrial orchids of Australia and New Zealand and western Pacific)
genus Rhyncostylis; Rhyncostylis (genus of epiphytic orchids of tropical Asia)
genus Sarcochilus; Sarcochilus (diminutive epiphytic or lithophytic orchids with clumped short-stemmed foliage and arching racemes of colorful flowers; Australia and Polynesia to southeastern Asia)
genus Scaphosepalum; Scaphosepalum (comprises some tropical American species usually placed in genus Masdevallia: diminutive plants with small flowers carried on one scape)
genus Schomburgkia; Schomburgkia (genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids with showy racemose flowers)
genus Selenipedium; Selenipedium (genus of tall reedlike tropical American orchids; includes species with pods used locally as a substitute for vanilla)
genus Sobralia (genus of tropical American orchids)
genus Spiranthes; Spiranthes (large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids)
genus Stanhopea (genus of tropical American epiphytic orchids)
genus Stelis (genus of small caespitose orchids of tropical America)
genus Trichoceros; Trichoceros (small genus of small epiphytic or terrestrial orchids of tropical South America)
genus Vanda (genus of showy epiphytic orchids of Himalayas to Malaysia)
genus Vanilla (large genus of tropical climbing orchids; Old and New Worlds)
Holonyms ("Orchidaceae" is a member of...):
Orchidales; order Orchidales (order of plants with irregular flowers having minute seeds: Orchidaceae; Burmanniaceae)
