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PURPLE-HOODED ORCHIS

Dictionary entry overview: What does purple-hooded orchis mean?

• PURPLE-HOODED ORCHIS (noun)
The noun PURPLE-HOODED ORCHIS has 1 sense:

1. North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood

Familiarity information: PURPLE-HOODED ORCHIS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• PURPLE-HOODED ORCHIS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Orchis spectabilis; purple orchis; purple-hooded orchis; showy orchis

Hypernyms ("purple-hooded orchis" is a kind of...):

orchis (any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes)

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