Habenaria

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Habenaria \Habenaria\ prop. n.
     A genus of chiefly terrestrial orchids with tubers or fleshy
     roots often having long slender spurs and petals and lip
     lobes; it includes species formerly placed in the genus
     {Gymnadeniopsis}.
  


     Syn: genus {Habenaria}.
          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Habenaria
       n : 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}]