1. 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: Habenaria, genus Habenaria]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
genus Habenaria
n 1: 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: Habenaria, genus Habenaria]