orchis : Idioms & Phrases

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butterfly orchis

  • noun Mexican epiphytic orchid having pale green or yellow-green flowers with white purple-veined lip
    Encyclia venosa; butterfly orchid; Epidendrum venosum.
  • noun Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip
    butterfly orchis; butterfly orchid.
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fen orchis

  • noun small terrestrial orchid of eastern North America and Europe having two nearly basal leaves and dull yellow-green racemose flowers
    fen orchid; Liparis loeselii.
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Fly orchis

  • (Bot.), a plant (Ophrys muscifera), whose flowers resemble flies.
Webster 1913

fringed orchis

  • noun any of several summer-flowering American orchids distinguished by a fringed or lacerated lip
    fringed orchid.
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genus orchis

  • noun type genus of the orchid family; hardy terrestrial orchids of the temperate the northern hemisphere
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green fringed orchis

  • noun fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
    Habenaria lacera; ragged-fringed orchid; green fringed orchis; ragged orchid.
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male orchis

  • noun Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike
    male orchis; early purple orchid.
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Musk orchis

  • (Bot.), a European plant of the Orchis family (Herminium Minorchis); so called from its peculiar scent.
Webster 1913

orchis mascula

  • noun Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike
    male orchis; early purple orchid.
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orchis papilionaceae

  • noun Mediterranean orchid having usually purple flowers with a fan-shaped spotted or striped rose-red lip
    butterfly orchis; butterfly orchid.
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orchis spectabilis

  • noun North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood
    Orchis spectabilis; purple orchis; purple-hooded orchis.
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prairie white-fringed orchis

  • noun orchid of boggy or wet lands of north central United States having racemes of very fragrant creamy or greenish white flowers
    Habenaria leucophaea; prairie orchid.
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purple fringeless orchis

  • noun orchid of northeastern and alpine eastern North America closely related to the purple fringed orchids but having rosy-purple or violet flowers with denticulate leaf divisions
    Habenaria peramoena; purple fringeless orchid.
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purple orchis

  • noun North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood
    Orchis spectabilis; purple orchis; purple-hooded orchis.
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purple-fringed orchis

  • noun North American orchid with clusters of fragrant purple fringed flowers
    purple-fringed orchid; Habenaria psycodes.
  • noun North American orchid similar to Habenaria psycodes with larger paler flowers
    purple-fringed orchid; Habenaria fimbriata.
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purple-hooded orchis

  • noun North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood
    Orchis spectabilis; purple orchis; purple-hooded orchis.
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ragged orchis

  • noun fringed orchid of the eastern United States having a greenish flower with the lip deeply lacerated
    Habenaria lacera; ragged-fringed orchid; green fringed orchis; ragged orchid.
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rein orchis

  • noun any of several American wildflowers with a kidney-shaped lip
    rein orchid.
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showy orchis

  • noun North American orchid having a spike of violet-purple flowers mixed with white; sepals and petals form a hood
    Orchis spectabilis; purple orchis; purple-hooded orchis.
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Soldier orchis

  • (Bot.), a kind of orchis (Orchis militaris).
Webster 1913

Spider orchis

  • (Bot.), a European orchidaceous plant (Ophrys aranifera), having flowers which resemble spiders.
Webster 1913

white fringed orchis

  • noun bog orchid of eastern North America with a spike of pure white fringed flowers
    white fringed orchid; Habenaria albiflora.
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