butterfly orchid
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1. Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | orchis, |
| definition | : | any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes (noun.plant) |
2. orchid of Florida and the Bahamas having showy brightly colored flowers; sometimes placed in genus Epidendrum (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | orchid, orchidaceous plant, |
| definition | : | any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | encyclia, genus encyclia, |
| definition | : | large genus of epiphytic and lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas and West Indies; formerly included in genus Epidendrum (noun.plant) |
3. Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | orchid, orchidaceous plant, |
| definition | : | any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | encyclia, genus encyclia, |
| definition | : | large genus of epiphytic and lithophytic orchids of tropical and subtropical Americas and West Indies; formerly included in genus Epidendrum (noun.plant) |
4. any orchid of the genus Oncidium: characterized by slender branching sprays of small yellow and brown flowers; often grown as houseplants (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | orchid, orchidaceous plant, |
| definition | : | any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus oncidium, |
| definition | : | large genus of showy epiphytic or lithophytic or terrestrial orchids of tropical and subtropical America (noun.plant) |
5. any orchid of the genus Psychopsis: spectacular large tiger-striped orchids (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | orchid, orchidaceous plant, |
| definition | : | any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | oncidium papilio, psychopsis papilio, |
| definition | : | orchid of South America and Trinidad having large yellow and reddish-brown flowers; sometimes placed in genus Oncidium (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genus psychopsis, psychopsis, |
| definition | : | epiphytic orchids of Central and South America formerly included in genus Oncidium (noun.plant) |
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