Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An orchid of the genus Cycnoches, particularly C. Loddigesii: so called in allusion to the long arched column.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several orchids of the genus Cycnoches having slender arching columns of flowers suggesting the neck of a swan
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This dreamy, imaginative, blond Prince is in search of a Naiade and the mysterious “swan-flower,” wherein the fair nymph is hidden.
Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901
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