bee-flowern.
1. A flower resembling a bee; the Bee Orchis.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids
satyrionOE
bollockwort?a1300
sanicle14..
bollock?a1425
martagon1548
orchis1559
dogstones1562
hare's-ballocks1562
stone1562
bollock grass1578
dog's cods1578
dog's cullions1578
double-leaf1578
fly-orchis1578
goat's cullions1578
goat's orchis1578
priest's pintle1578
twayblade1578
bee-orchis1597
bifoil1597
bird's nest1597
bird's orchis1597
butterfly orchis1597
fenny-stones1597
gelded satyrion1597
gnat satyrion1597
humble-bee orchis1597
lady's slipper1597
sweet ballocks1597
two-blade1605
cullions1611
bee-flower1626
fly-flower1640
man orchis1670
musk orchis1670
moccasin flower1680
gnat-flower1688
faham tea1728
Ophrys1754
green man orchis1762
Arethusa1764
honey flower1771
cypripedium1775
rattlesnake plantain1778
Venus's slipper1785
Adam and Eve1789
lizard orchis179.
epidendrum1791
Pogonia?1801
Vanda1801
cymbidium1815
Oncidium1822
putty-root1822
Noah's Ark1826
yellow moccasin1826
gongora1827
cattleya1828
green man1828
nervine1828
stanhopea1829
dove-flower1831
catasetum1836
Odontoglossum1836
Miltonia1837
letter plant1838
spread eagle1838
letter-leaf1839
swan-plant1841
orchid1843
disa1844
masdevallia1845
Phalaenopsis1846
faham1850
Indian crocus1850
moccasin plant1850
pleione1851
dove orchis1852
nerve root1854
Holy Ghost flower1862
basket-plant1865
lizard's tongue1866
mousetail1866
Sobralia1866
swan-neck1866
swanwort1866
Indian shoe1876
odontoglot1879
wreathewort1879
moth orchid1880
rattlesnake orchid1881
dendrobe1882
dove-plant1882
Madeira orchis1882
man orchis1882
swan-flower1884
slipper-orchid1885
slipper orchis1889
mayflower1894
scorpion orchid1897
moederkappie1910
dove orchid1918
monkey orchid1925
man orchid1927
1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §609 The Figure maketh the Fable; For so we see, there be Bee-Flowers, etc.
1749 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 531 Could Mrs. Viney send the Duchess a root or two of the bee-flower?
2. A flower visited or fertilized by bees.
ΘΚΠ
the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > flower or part containing reproductive organs > flower or flowering plant > [noun] > pollination > involving particular type of agency > plant characterized by
bee-flower1618
wasp-flower1884
anemophile1900
ornithophile1961
1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden vi. 13 Wall flowers, commonly called Bee-flowers, or winter-gilly flowers.
1879 J. Lubbock Sci. Lect. ii. 32 Bee-flowers (if I may coin such an expression) have generally bright clear colors.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2019).
> as lemmas
bee-flower
bee-flower n. a flower loved, visited, or fertilized by bees, spec. the Wall-flower; also, a flower resembling a bee, the Bee Orchis.
<
n.1618as lemmas
- to join the ladies
- to join the majority
- to join the silent majority
- to join the standard of
- to join to marriage
- to join unity
- to join up
- to join, lay loggerheads together
- to joint a person's nose of
- to jostle one's way
- to jot down
- to journey it
- to joust of war
- to judge a book by its cover
- to judge by
- to judge from
- to judge to death
- to judge to the worse
- to jump a bounty
- to jump a broom
- to jump a broomstick
- to jump a claim
- to jump a person in
- to jump a person out
- to jump at