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Orchid

Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.

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Calypso 76% connected

A small and beautiful species of orchid, having a flower variegated with purple, pink, and yellow. It grows in cold and wet localities in the norther…

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Greenhood 76% connected

A state of greenness; verdancy.

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Ladies' tresses 76% connected

A name given to several species of the orchidaceous genus Spiranthes, in which the white flowers are set in spirals about a slender axis and remotely…

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Lady's slipper 76% connected

Any orchidaceous plant of the genus Cypripedium, the labellum of which resembles a slipper. Less commonly, in the United States, the garden balsam (I…

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Oncidium 76% connected

A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly.

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Orchis 76% connected

A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tub…

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Puttyroot 76% connected

An American orchidaceous plant (Aplectrum hyemale) which flowers in early summer. Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled…

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Twayblade 76% connected

Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis.

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Vanilla 76% connected

A genus of climbing orchidaceous plants, natives of tropical America.

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Flower 76% connected

In the popular sense, the bloom or blossom of a plant; the showy portion, usually of a different color, shape, and texture from the foliage.

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Mentum 70% connected

The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

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