noun
orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions
• Syn: ↑purple fringeless orchis, ↑Habenaria peramoena
• Hypernyms: ↑fringed orchis, ↑fringed orchid
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noun also purple fringeless orchis : an orchid (Habenaria peramoena) of northeastern and alpine eastern No. America that is closely related to the large-flowered purple-fringed orchid but has rosy purple to purple violet flowers with the lip divisions denticulate
Useful english dictionary. 2012.