family orchidaceae

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   enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers

   SynonymsOrchidaceaeorchid family

   Broadermonocot family

   Part ofOrchidales

Questions about family orchidaceae

What does family orchidaceae mean?

family orchidaceae means "enormous cosmopolitan family of perennial terrestrial or epiphytic plants with fleshy tubers or rootstocks and unusual flowers".

What is another word for family orchidaceae?

Close synonyms include Orchidaceae, orchid family. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is family orchidaceae a common word?

family orchidaceae is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.