Definition of Liparis

1. Noun. An orchid of the genus Liparis having few leaves and usually fairly small yellow-green or dull purple flowers in terminal racemes.

Generic synonyms: Orchid, Orchidaceous Plant
Group relationships: Genus Liparis

2. Noun. Type genus of the Liparididae: snailfishes.
Exact synonyms: Genus Liparis
Generic synonyms: Fish Genus
Group relationships: Family Liparidae, Family Liparididae, Liparidae, Liparididae
Member holonyms: Liparis Liparis, Sea Snail, Seasnail, Snailfish

Lexicographical Neighbors of Liparis

Lion of Judah
Lionel
Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Hampton
Lionel Trilling
Lions Club
Liopelma
Liopelma hamiltoni
Liopelmidae
Lipan
Lipans
Lipari Islands
Liparian
Liparidae
Liparididae
Liparis
Liparis liparis
Liparis loeselii
Lipchitz
Lipetsk
Lipitor
Lipizzan
Lipmann
Lipo-Hepin
Lipo-Lutin
Liponyssus
Liposcelis
Liposcelis divinatorius
Lipotyphla
Lippershey

Literary usage of Liparis

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1864)
"The name L. tunicata is thus solely based on the C. liparis of Fabricius, and as the first variety is the one fully described by that author, ..."

2. The Gypsy Moth: Porthetria Dispar (Linn.). A Report of the Work of by Edward Howe Forbush, Charles Henry Fernald, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture (1896)
"liparis dispar, Lacordaire, Manual of Entomology, p. 312, 1836. ... liparis dispar, De Selys, Cat. Lep. de la Belg., p. 28, 1837. liparis dispar, Krause ..."

3. Summarized Proceedings ... and a Directory of Members (1874)
"I have long known of the existence of a species of liparis on the coast of Massachusetts, specimens having been collected as long ago as 1856 and exhibited ..."

4. The Entomologist; an Illustrated Journal of General Entomology by Edward Newman, Royal Entomological Society of London (1884)
"ON THE URTICATING PROPERTIES OF THE HAIRS OF liparis ... Merrin in his 'Calendar' (apparently quoting some other author), says that the larva of liparis ..."

5. Catalogue of the Fishes in the British Museum by Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther (1861)
"liparis, Artedi, Syn. p. 117; Cuc. Regne Anim. Body subcylindrical anteriorly, compressed posteriorly, rather elongate, enveloped in a more or less loose ..."

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