HyperDic: genus_habenaria

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Habenaria:
NOUNplantgenus Habenaria, Habenariachiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes
English > genus Habenaria: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningchiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis.
SynonymHabenaria
Member ofOrchidaceae, family Orchidaceae, orchid familyenormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks / rootstocks and unusual flowers
Membersfringed orchis, fringed orchidAny of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
frog orchidAny of several green orchids of the genus Habenaria
rein orchid, rein orchisAny of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip
Broadermonocot genus, liliopsid genusgenus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed
Spanishgenus habenaria, habenaria
Catalangenus habenaria, habenaria

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