noun
chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip lobes; includes species formerly placed in genus Gymnadeniopsis
• Syn: ↑genus Habenaria
• Hypernyms: ↑monocot genus, ↑liliopsid genus
• Member Holonyms: ↑Orchidaceae, ↑family Orchidaceae, ↑orchid family
• Member Meronyms: ↑fringed orchis, ↑fringed orchid, ↑frog orchid, ↑rein orchid, ↑rein orchis
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\\ˌhabəˈna(a)rēə\ nounEtymology: New Latin, from Latin habena strap, thong (from habēre to have, hold) + New Latin -aria; from the shape of parts of the flowers — more at give
1. capitalized : a very large genus of somewhat glabrous orchids chiefly of the northern hemisphere with usually small flowers having the lip lobed, entire, or fringed and borne in racemes or spikes — see fringed orchis, rein orchis
Useful english dictionary. 2012.