butterfly orchis

English Thesaurus

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. 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)