Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun orchis_papilionaceae

1 sense of orchis papilionaceae

Sense 1
butterfly orchid, butterfly orchis, Orchis papilionaceae -- (Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip)
       => orchis -- (any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes)