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SCREW AUGUR

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• SCREW AUGUR (noun)
The noun SCREW AUGUR has 1 sense:

1. an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having tall erect densely flowered spiraling clusters of creamy white vanilla-scented flowers; widely distributed especially in low damp places of eastern and central North America

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• SCREW AUGUR (noun)

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Meaning:

An orchid of the genus Spiranthes having tall erect densely flowered spiraling clusters of creamy white vanilla-scented flowers; widely distributed especially in low damp places of eastern and central North America

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

screw augur; Spiranthes cernua

Hypernyms ("screw augur" is a kind of...):

ladies' tresses; lady's tresses (an orchid of the genus Spiranthes having slender often twisted spikes of white flowers)

Holonyms ("screw augur" is a member of...):

genus Spiranthes; Spiranthes (large cosmopolitan genus of white-flowered terrestrial orchids)

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