Look up: orchid

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   Orchid
   (Orchidaceae) This group consists of 25,000 to 30,000 different species or wild types that are found throughout the world including tropical forests, semi-desert regions, near the seashore and the tundra. Although most Orchids are found in tropical regions, some such as Cypripedium passerinum and guttatum and Coeloglossum virdie, bloom within the Arctic Circle. Some Orchid groups are pantropical, meaning they grow in many different countries, while some are endemic, which is to say they are rest...
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   Orchid
   Orchid is the popular name for any plant of the family Orchidaceae. They are found in temperate and tropical regions and have showy flowers.
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   Orchid
   Orchid is a town in Indian River County Florida, USA
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   orchid
   [n] - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
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   orchid
   a plant that takes its name from the Greek word 'orchis' which means 'testes.' Orchids were so named because of the resemblance of their root bulbs to testes. What emerges from this seemingly masculine looking root, however, is the beautiful flower known as an orchid.
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   orchid
   a very large family of very specialized monocotyledonous plants of the order Orchidales Category: agriculture, fisheries, forestry - food processing industries
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   Orchid
   Or'chid noun [ See Orchis .] (Botany) Any plant of the order Orchidaceæ . See Orchidaceous .
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   orchid
   <botany> Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous. ... See: Orchis. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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   orchid
   orchidaceous plant noun any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
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    Orchid
    • (n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
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    orchid
    (from the article `Life Sciences`) Biologist Santiago Ramírez and his colleagues at Harvard University identified the first fossilized remains of an orchid. The finding allowed them to ... In their study of the orchid Holcoglossum amesianum, LaiQiang Huang at Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China, and colleagues discovered a previ...
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    orchid
    orchid 1. Any plant of the orchis family, often remarkable for brilliancy of color or grotesqueness (bizarre, outlandish) of form, in some cases resembling various insects and other animals. Orchids are often epiphytes that grow upon trees without taking nourishment from them. They usually have their stems swollen into fleshy pseudobulbs that store water ...
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    Orchid
    Unit Test, Orchid (Testes) Words Orchid Words, Quiz #1.
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    orchid
    orchid, popular name for members of the Orchidaceae, a family of perennial herbs widely distributed in both hemispheres. The unusually large family (of some 450 genera and an estimated 10,000 to 17,500 species) includes terrestrial, epiphytic (see epiphyte), and saprophytic (subsisting on decomposin...
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