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malaxis
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun malaxis has 1 sense
- malaxis(n = noun.plant) genus malaxis - large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; cosmopolitan; Array is a kind of liliopsid genus, monocot genus
is a member of family orchidaceae, orchid family, orchidaceae
CIDE DICTIONARY
malaxis, prop. n.
A large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; it is cosmopolitan. [WordNet 1.5]
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