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What Does Genus Catasetum Mean?

Dictionary entry overview:
• GENUS CATASETUM (noun)
The noun GENUS CATASETUM has 1 sense:

1. genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences

Familiarity information: GENUS CATASETUM used as a noun is very rare.

• GENUS CATASETUM (noun)

Sense 1 genus Catasetum

Meaning:
Genus of tropical American orchids having showy male and female flowers usually on separate inflorescences

Classified under: Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms: Catasetum; genus Catasetum

Hypernyms ("genus Catasetum" is a kind of...):
liliopsid genus; monocot genus (genus of flowering plants having a single cotyledon (embryonic leaf) in the seed)

Meronyms (members of "genus Catasetum"):
Catasetum macrocarpum; jumping orchid (orchid having both male and female flowers in the same raceme; when a sensitive projection at the base of the column of the male flower is touched the pollen is suddenly ejected)

Holonyms ("genus Catasetum" is a member of...):
family Orchidaceae; orchid family; Orchidaceae (enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers)

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