Orchis

A genus of endogenous plants growing in the North Temperate zone, and consisting of about eighty species. They are perennial herbs growing from a tuber (beside which is usually found the last year's tuber also), and are valued for their showy flowers. See Orchidaceous.

Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.

one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens; "she kicked him in the balls and got away"

any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes