| brassavola | (n) any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7 |
| genus brassavola | (n) genus of tropical American epiphytic or lithophytic rhizomatous orchids |
| brassavola | n. any of various tropical American orchids with usually solitary fleshy leaves and showy white to green nocturnally fragrant blossoms solitary or in racemes of up to 7. [ WordNet 1.5 ] |