giant helleborine

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   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

   Synonymsstream orchidchatterboxEpipactis gigantea

   Broaderhelleborine

   Part ofEpipactis

Questions about giant helleborine

What does giant helleborine mean?

giant helleborine means "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".

What is another word for giant helleborine?

Close synonyms include stream orchid, chatterbox, Epipactis gigantea. 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 giant helleborine a common word?

giant helleborine 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.