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cymbidium
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun cymbidium has 1 sense
- cymbidium(n = noun.plant) cymbid - any of various plants of the genus Cymbidium having narrow leaves and a long drooping cluster of numerous showy and variously colored boat-shaped flowers; extensively hybridized and cultivated as houseplants and important florists' flowers; Array is a kind of orchid, orchidaceous plant
is a member of genus cymbidium
OXFORD DICTIONARY
cymbidium, n. any tropical orchid of the genus Cymbidium, with a recess in the flower-lip.
Etymology
mod.L f. Gk kumbe cup
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