noun
any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
• Syn: ↑fringed orchid
• Hypernyms: ↑orchid, ↑orchidaceous plant
• Hyponyms:
↑white fringed orchis, ↑white fringed orchid, ↑Habenaria albiflora, ↑purple-fringed orchid, ↑purple-fringed orchis, ↑Habenaria fimbriata, ↑Hooker's orchid, ↑Habenaria hookeri, ↑ragged orchid, ↑ragged orchis, ↑ragged-fringed orchid, ↑green fringed orchis, ↑Habenaria lacera, ↑prairie orchid, ↑prairie white-fringed orchis, ↑Habenaria leucophaea, ↑snowy orchid, ↑Habenaria nivea, ↑purple fringeless orchid, ↑purple fringeless orchis, ↑Habenaria peramoena, ↑Habenaria psycodes
• Member Holonyms: ↑Habenaria, ↑genus Habenaria
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noun also fringed orchid : any of several summer-flowering American orchids of the genus Habenaria distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
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any of several American orchids of the genus Habenaria, having a cut, fringed lip. Also called fringed orchid.
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fringed orchis,
any one of various North American orchids having a fringed lip.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.