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单词 orchis
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orchisn.

Brit. /ˈɔːkɪs/, U.S. /ˈɔrkəs/
Forms: 1500s orchios, 1500s orcis, 1500s– orchis.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin orchis.
Etymology: < classical Latin orchis any of various kinds of orchid < ancient Greek ὄρχις testicle, in Hellenistic Greek also orchid, from the shape of the (frequently paired) tubers in many species (compare bollock grass n. at bollock n. and adj. Compounds, dogstones n.). Compare Middle French, French orchis (1546 in Middle French in Rabelais).Ancient Greek ὄρχις is < the same Indo-European base as Avestan ərəzi- testicle, Early Irish uirge testicle (Irish uirghe, úirí), Armenian amorjikʽ (plural) testicles (compare orj male, orji uncastrated), and (with a different ablaut grade) Albanian herdhe (plural) testicles, and (with -l- extension) Lithuanian eržilas stallion.
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.
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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.
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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).
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