| NOUN | plant | 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 |
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| Meaning | 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. | |
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| Synonym | genus Brassia | |
| Member of | Orchidaceae, family Orchidaceae, orchid family | enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks / rootstocks and unusual flowers |
| Members | spider orchid, Brassia lawrenceana | South American orchid with spiderlike pale-yellow to pale-green flowers |
| spider orchid, Brassia verrucosa | Central American orchid having spiderlike flowers with prominent green warts | |
| Broader | monocot genus, liliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed |
| Spanish | brassia, genus brassia | |
| Catalan | brassia, genus brassia | |
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