Meanings
plural greenhoods
- Any of the genus Pterostylis of orchids of Australasia and the southwest Pacific.First known use 20th c.
Gott found that after harvesting the greenhoods, 75 per cent of the pre-harvest density was restored within fourteen months.
2018, Bruce Pascoe, Dark Emu, Scribe, published 2020, page 24
Synonyms & antonyms
nounany 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
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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