单词 | orchis |
释义 | orchisn. 1. A plant of the family Orchidaceae; an orchid. Now usually: spec. a plant of the genus Orchis, the type genus of this family, which is now limited to terrestrial orchids of north temperate regions with a single rounded tuber and perianth segments forming a helmet over the column; (in form Orchis) the genus itself.In general use now largely replaced by orchid n.Valid publication of the genus name: Linnaeus Species Plantarum (1753) II. 939. 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 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 33 Orchis, Satyrion is destiled rootes and al, good for ye falling euill. 1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 152 There are diuers kindes of orchis..ye other kindes ar in other countrees called fox stones or hear stones, and they may after ye Greke be called dog-stones. 1642 F. Kinnaston Leoline & Sydanis 65 The dasie sprung from the greene Camomill, The floury Orchis with it's tender stem. 1653 H. More Antidote against Atheisme ii. vi. §4. 57 All your orchisses that they have given names unto from some beasts or other as cynosorchis [etc.]. 1661 S. Pordage Mundorum Explicatio 151 A great bunch of Satyrion, Orchis, and Southernwood instead of plumes. 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 825 Some Bulbose or Tuberose Plant, perhaps a Satyrion or Orchis. 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique (at cited word) In the Culture of the Orchis the Gardener must give it a moist Earth and a Northern Exposition. 1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxii. 216 In Orchis, where the Species are known by the Roots being fibrose, round or testiculate. 1807 J. E. Smith Introd. Physiol. & Systematical Bot. 272 In the Orchis family..the pollen is of a glutinous nature. 1838 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) III. vi. 89 My present passion is for indigenous orchises. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam lxxxi. 113 Bring orchis, bring the fox-glove spire, The little speedwell's darling blue. View more context for this quotation 1884 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 816/1 The word Orchis is used in a special sense to denote a particular genus of the Orchid family (Orchidaceæ); very frequently also, it is employed in a more general way to indicate any member of that large and very interesting group. 1952 J. Brooke Flower in Season 56 The twin tubers of the various Orchises (and other genera in the order) have acquired for these plants..an entirely undeserved reputation as ‘herbs of Venus’. 1972 O. Polunin & A. Huxley Flowers of Mediterranean (rev. ed.) 229 Serapias hybridize freely among themselves and also with Orchis species. 1996 Church Times 19 July 24/5 Such clovers and orchises, poppies up all around, the golfers in companionable play. 2. With distinguishing word (frequently denoting something which the flower is thought to resemble): an orchid of a particular species.bee, butterfly, cuckoo, fly, lizard, male, man, military, pyramidal, soldier orchis, etc.: see the first element. Such compounds have now been largely superseded by equivalent compounds with orchid as the second element, even in the case of orchids belonging to the genus Orchis: cf. orchid n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids > helleborine or lady's tresses lady's traces1548 orchis1578 sweet orchis1578 butterfly orchis1597 triple Lady's traces1611 goodyera1813 lady's tresses1820 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. lvi. 222 The fifth kinde is called..sauerie Standel~wurte, or sweete Ballocke, and Dwarffe Orchis. 1601 R. Chester Loves Martyr 94 There's Standergras, Hares ballockes, or great Orchis. ?1711 J. Petiver Gazophylacii IX. Table 86 Yellow Cape Dragon-Orchis, with broad, pointed Socket-leaves. 1819 Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. 2nd Ser. VIII. 170 In July the lover of plants is gratified with..the brilliant fimbriate orchis [etc.]. 1861 A. Pratt Flowering Plants & Ferns Great Brit. V. 204 Early Purple Orchis. 1983 H. Carruth Bouquet in Dog Time in Coll. Shorter Poems ix. 208 Black-eyed susan, One fringed orchis, ragged and wry. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1559 |
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