early purple orchid

early purple orchid

n (Anatomy) a Eurasian orchid, Orchis mascula, with purplish-crimson flowers and stems marked with blackish-purple spots

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early purple orchid - Eurasian orchid with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spikemale orchis, Orchis masculaorchis - any of various deciduous terrestrial orchids having fleshy tubers and flowers in erect terminal racemes