Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In anatomy, the testis, testicle, or its equivalent.
- noun A plant of the genus Orchis; also, one of numerous plants in other genera of the orchis family, Orchideæ.
- noun [capitalized] A genus of plants, type of the order Orchideæ, belonging to the tribe Ophrydeæ and the subtribe Serapieæ, characterized by its spurred lip, and by the two pollen-glands being inclosed in a common pouch.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun (Bot.) 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 . - proper noun (Bot.) Any plant of the same family with the orchis; an orchid.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A taxonomic
genus within thesubtribe Orchidinae — theorchids .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- noun any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes
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Examples
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British species, such as Orchis pyramidalis, it is not necessary that there should be any exact adjustment between the length of the nectary and that of the proboscis of the insect; and thus a number of insects of various sizes are found to carry away the pollinia and aid in the fertilization.
Contributions to the Theory of Natural Selection A Series of Essays Alfred Russel Wallace 1868
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Threatened and semi-endemic relict species present include Ranzania japonica, Hylotelephium tsugaruense, Cerastium arvense var. ovatum, Poa ogamontana, Padicularis nipponica and numerous orchids: Calanthe discolor, C. nipponica, Cypripedium yatabeanum, Gymnadenia fujisanensis, Orchis graminifolia and Tipularia japonica.
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I tried to get some info on your Orchis sancta, but found little that was helpful.
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Nationally endangered plant species (15 species in total) include: Cypripedium macranthon, Calypso bulbosa, Orchis militaris and Cotoneaster lucidus.
East Siberian taiga 2008
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Other endangered species include: Cypripedium macranthon, Calypso bulbosa, Epipogium phyllum, Orchis militaris, Trapa natans, Paeonia anomala, Nymphaea candida and other plants.
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It is one of those systems to store water, tuberoids often found in terrestrial orchid species, that gave name to the genus Orchis.
Orchids of Mexico 1997
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Potentilla, Salix fruticosa; here also occurs the first Orchidea I have seen in Khorassan: it belongs to the tribe Orchis, but is out of flower.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith
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_A_, inflorescence of the showy orchis (_Orchis spectabilis_), × 1 (_Orchideæ_).
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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Myriads of flowers gleam in their own atmosphere of living light, like jewels among the rich herbage, so that the feet can hardly be set down without crushing scores of them: the _Orchis rubra_ with its splendid spike of crimson blossoms, the bee and spider orchises in great variety, whose flowers mimic the insects after whom they are named, sweet-scented alyssum, golden buttercups and hawkweeds, Roman daisies, larger and taller than the
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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Indigenous salep is procured, according to Dr. Perceval from _Orchis mascula_, _O. latifolia_, _O. morio_, and other native plants of this order.
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