1) Aerides 2) Angrecum 3) Arethusa 4) Bletia 5) Brassavola 6) Caladenia 7) Calanthe 8) Calypso 9) Cattleya 10) Coelogyne 11) Corsage 12) Cymbid 13) Cymbidium 14) Cypripedia 15) Dendrobium 16) Disa 17) Epidendron 18) Greenhood 19) Helleborine 20) Helmetflower 21) Laelia 22) Liparis 23) Masdevallia 24) Maxillaria
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1) Bloom or hue 2) Cancer research 3) Colorful flower 4) Common corsage 5) Common corsage flower 6) Corsage blossom 7) Corsage choice 8) Corsage flower 9) Corsage staple 10) Evil goblin concealed plant 11) Exotic hothouse plant 12) Flower 13) Greenhouse plant 14) Hothouse flower 15) Lady-slipper 16) Orchidaceous plant
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[charity] Orchid is a British charity which funds research into the diagnosis, prevention and treatment of prostate, penile and testicular cancer and promotes awareness about these diseases. It was set up in 1996 by former testicular cancer sufferer, Colin Osborne. ...
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[color] Orchid is a bright rich purple color that is a representation of the color of the orchidaceae flower. Various tones of orchid may range from grayish purple to purplish-pink to strong reddish purple. The first recorded use of orchid as a color name in English was in 1915. In 1987, orchid was included as one of the X11 colors. After t...
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• (n.) Any plant of the order Orchidaceae. See Orchidaceous.
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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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(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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(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 A...
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Or'chid noun [ See
Orchis .]
(Botany) Any plant of the order
Orchidaceæ . See
Orchidaceous .
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Orchid is the popular name for any plant of the family Orchidaceae. They are found in temperate and tropical regions and have showy flowers with three sepals and three petals, of which the lower one is usually larger, wider and more brightly coloured than the others and is known as the labellum. Orchids occur all over the world, but are most common...
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n] - any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
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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...
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Unit Test, Orchid (Testes) Words Orchid Words, Quiz #1.
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orchidaceous plant noun any of numerous plants of the orchid family usually having flowers of unusual shapes and beautiful colors
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Click images to enlargeAny plant of a large family that contains at least 15,000 species and 700 genera, distributed throughout the world except in the coldest areas, and most numerous in damp equatorial regions. The flowers are the most highly evolved of the plant kingdom; they have three sepals and three petals and ...
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One Recent Child, Heavily in Debt – demographic group.
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any terrestrial or epiphytic plant of the family Orchidaceae, of temperate and tropical regions, having usually showy flowers. Cf. · the flower of any of these plants. · a bluish to reddish purple.
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