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Helmet orchid

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various orchids with helmet-shaped flowers, of genera Coryanthes, Corybas, Cranichis, Nematoceras, and Pterostylis.
  2. 2
    any of several orchids of the genus Coryanthes having racemes of a few musky-scented waxy flowers with a helmet-shaped lip process wordnet
  3. 3
    any of numerous orchids of the genus Pterostylis having leaves in a basal rosette and green flowers often striped purple or brown or red with the dorsal sepal incurved to form a hood wordnet

Etymology

Calque of translingual Corybas, though an incorrect calque, as the taxonomic name is from Ancient Greek Κορῠ́βᾱς (Korŭ́bās), not κόρῠς (kórŭs, “helmet”).

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