noun
orchid growing along streams or ponds of western North America having leafy stems and 1 greenish-brown and pinkish flower in the axil of each upper leaf
• Syn: ↑chatterbox, ↑giant helleborine, ↑Epipactis gigantea
• Hypernyms: ↑helleborine
• Member Holonyms: ↑Epipactis, ↑genus Epipactis
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noun : a helleborine (Epipactis gigantea) native to western No. America and having greenish or purplish pendulous flowers — called also giant helleborine
Useful english dictionary. 2012.